More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 98
And he mastered everything except the fiery dragon, but the fiery dragon killed the little bull-calf.
Who acts: lad, fiery dragon · What happens: master, kill · To what, where: everything, little bull calf
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, fiery dragon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 mastered | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mastered | nsubj |
| 3 | mastered | master | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 mastered | obj |
| 5 | except | except | ADP | _ | 8 dragon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 7 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dragon | amod |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 everything | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 killed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 killed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 12 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dragon | amod |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 killed | nsubj |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mastered | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 calf | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 calf | amod |
| 17 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 calf | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 bull | punct |
| 19 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 killed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mastered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | master | past | lad | everything | except the fiery dragon | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill | past | the fiery dragon | the little bull calf | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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