The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 27

Then the shepherd called, ‘Pepper, come to the rescue,’ and the second dog set upon the dragon, and after a fierce struggle bit it so sharply in the neck that the monster rolled over, and in a few moments breathed its last.

Who acts: shepherd, neck · What happens: call, come, set, bite, roll over, breathe · To what, where: Pepper, rescue, second dog, struggle, neck, monster · 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 (shepherd, neck), 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	9 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shepherd	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Pepper	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Pepper	punct
7	Pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 rescue	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rescue	det
12	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rescue	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 rescue	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dog	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dog	det
17	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 dog	amod
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rescue	conj
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 dog	acl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 dragon	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dragon	det
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bit	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bit	cc
25	after	after	ADP	_	28 struggle	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 struggle	det
27	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 struggle	amod
28	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bit	obl
29	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bit	obj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 sharply	advmod
32	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	29 bit	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 neck	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 neck	det
35	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bit	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 breathed	nsubj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 monster	det
38	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 breathed	nsubj
39	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 monster	acl
40	over	over	ADV	_	39 rolled	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 breathed	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 breathed	cc
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 moments	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 moments	det
45	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 moments	amod
46	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 breathed	nsubj
47	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 neck	acl:relcl
48	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 last	nmod:poss
49	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 breathed	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	the shepherd not said here	Pepper				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	infinitive	the shepherd		the rescue and the second dog	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location
3	set	participle		the second dog not said here			upon the dragon	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon dragon=Destination
4	bite	past		struggle	the neck	after a fierce struggle	sharply property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in neck=Location
5	roll over	participle		the monster not said here			over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	breathe	past	the neck	monster's last				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Theme

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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