The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 20

At first the coachman wouldn’t say anything, but when the youth pressed him he told him that a huge dragon dwelt in the neighbourhood, and required yearly the sacrifice of a beautiful maiden.

Who acts: coachman, youth · What happens: not say, press, tell, dwell, require, sacrifice · To what, where: anything, coachman, youth, huge dragon, neighbourhood, sacrifice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coachman, youth), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 say	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coachman	det
4	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 pressed	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pressed	nsubj
14	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pressed	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 dragon	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dragon	det
21	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dragon	amod
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	ccomp
23	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 dragon	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 neighbourhood	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 neighbourhood	det
26	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dwelt	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 required	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 required	cc
29	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 told	ccomp
30	yearly	yearly	ADV	_	32 sacrifice	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sacrifice	det
32	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 required	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 maiden	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 maiden	det
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 maiden	amod
36	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sacrifice	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	would	the coachman	anything			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
2	press	past	the youth	coachman			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
3	tell speech: assert	past	coachman		youth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	dwell	participle		a huge dragon not said here		the neighbourhood	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neighbourhood=Location
5	require	participle		the sacrifice of a beautiful maiden			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sacrifice=Precondition
6	sacrifice			a beautiful maiden			nom sacrifice «act transitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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