More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 99
But the lad waited and waited till he saw the dragon go away, then he came down and skinned the little bull-calf, and took out its bladder and went after the dragon.
Who acts: lad, dragon · What happens: wait, see, go away, come down, skin, take out · To what, where: little bull calf, bladder · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 waited | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 waited | cc |
| 6 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | conj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 saw | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waited | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 came | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 skinned | cc |
| 20 | skinned | skin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 calf | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 calf | amod |
| 23 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 calf | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 bull | punct |
| 25 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 skinned | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 took | cc |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 took | compound:prt |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 bladder | nmod:poss |
| 31 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 went | cc |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 took | conj |
| 34 | after | after | ADP | _ | 36 dragon | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dragon | det |
| 36 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 went | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the lad | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wait | past | the lad not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past | lad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go away | infinitive | the dragon | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come down | past | lad | then | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | skin | past | lad not said here | the little bull calf | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer calf=Patient | ||||
| 7 | take out | past | the lad not said here | dragon's bladder | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Theme | ||||
| 8 | go | past | the lad not said here | after the dragon | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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