The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 40
The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told PAGE 57
Who acts: Ice Dragon · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: You · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, 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 (Ice Dragon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dragon | det |
| 2 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dragon | compound |
| 3 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Do | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 Do | cc |
| 6 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Dragon | acl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 Told | mark |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 Told | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Told | aux:pass |
| 10 | Told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Do | advcl |
| 11 | PAGE | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Told | obj |
| 12 | 57 | 57 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 PAGE | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | the Ice Dragon not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | You | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient page=Topic |
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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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