The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 99

Then the dragon flung himself on the youth and bound him fast with cords saying as he tied the last knot, ‘To-morrow when I go to church you must stay at home and kill him and cook him, and when I get back we will eat him together.’

Who acts: dragon, I, you, we · What happens: fling, bind, say, tie, go, stay · To what, where: Dragon, youth, last knot, church, home · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dragon, I, you, we), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 flung	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	nsubj
4	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 flung	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 youth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bound	cc
10	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flung	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bound	obj
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 bound	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 cords	case
14	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bound	obl
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 bound	parataxis
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 tied	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tied	nsubj
18	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 knot	det
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knot	amod
21	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 morrow	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 morrow	punct
24	To	to	ADP	_	26 morrow	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 To	punct
26	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	obl
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 go	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 go	nsubj
29	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 stay	advcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 church	case
31	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 stay	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 stay	aux
34	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 saying	ccomp
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 home	case
36	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stay	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 kill	cc
38	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 stay	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 kill	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 cook	cc
41	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 stay	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 cook	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 eat	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 eat	cc
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 get	advmod
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 get	nsubj
47	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 eat	advcl
48	back	back	ADV	_	47 get	advmod
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 eat	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 eat	aux
51	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flung	parataxis
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 eat	obj
53	together	together	ADV	_	51 eat	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 eat	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	51 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past	the dragon	Dragon	the youth	then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on youth=Destination
2	bind	past	the dragon not said here	Dragon			with cords; fast property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient with cord=Co-Patient
3	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tie	past	Dragon	the last knot			to morrow	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent knot=Patient to morrow=Co-Patient
5	go	present	I		church			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
6	stay	must	you		home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
7	kill	infinitive	you not said here	Dragon				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	cook	infinitive	you not said here	Dragon				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
9	get back	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
10	eat	future	we	Dragon			together property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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