The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 89

But when the same thing happened the third time, the dragon lost his temper, and went down into the stable and took a whip and gave the horse a good beating.

Who acts: same thing, dragon · What happens: happen, lose, go down, take, give, temper · To what, where: temper, stable, whip, good beating, horse

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same thing, 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	_	13 lost	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 happened	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happened	nsubj
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happened	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 happened	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dragon	det
12	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lost	nsubj
13	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 temper	nmod:poss
15	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lost	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	conj
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 stable	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stable	det
22	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 whip	det
26	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 beating	det
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beating	amod
33	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the same thing				time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	past	the dragon	Dragon's temper					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
3	go down	past	the dragon not said here			the stable		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	take	past	the dragon not said here	a whip					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Theme
5	give	past	the dragon not said here	a good beating	the horse				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient beating=Theme
6	temper		Dragon						nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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