The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 9

Then he dragged his enemy joyfully to the house, feeling that at length he had got the better of the mischievous beast which had done him so many ill turns.

Who acts: peasant, mischievous beast · What happens: drag, feel, get, do · To what, where: enemy, house, length, peasant

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, mischievous beast), 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	3 dragged	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dragged	nsubj
3	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 enemy	nmod:poss
5	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dragged	obj
6	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	3 dragged	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dragged	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feeling	punct
11	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dragged	advcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 got	mark
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 length	case
14	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 got	aux
17	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 feeling	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 better	det
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 got	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 beast	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 beast	det
22	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 beast	amod
23	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 better	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 beast	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	obj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 many	advmod
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 turns	amod
30	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 turns	amod
31	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 done	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dragged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	peasant	peasant's enemy	the house	then	joyfully property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme to house=Destination
2	feel	gerund	peasant not said here					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	get	past · perfect	peasant		length		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	do	past · perfect	the mischievous beast	peasant				tree rules

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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