The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 43

When the Dragon comes, I will ask him what the riddle is, for he tells me everything; then listen carefully what he answers.’

Who acts: Dragon, I, riddle, stone · What happens: come, ask, be, tell, listen, answer · To what, where: stone, everything, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. 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, riddle, stone), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 comes	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dragon	det
3	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ask	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 ask	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 ask	aux
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ask	obj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 ask	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 riddle	det
12	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tells	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 tells	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tells	nsubj
17	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ask	parataxis
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tells	iobj
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 tells	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 listen	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 listen	advmod
22	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ask	conj
23	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	22 listen	advmod
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 answers	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 answers	nsubj
26	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 listen	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ask	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the Dragon					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	future	I		stone			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is a	present	the riddle					tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present	stone	everything	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient everything=Topic
5	listen	infinitive	I not said here			then	carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	answer speech: assert	present	stone					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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