The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 89

Be a good little King now, and say 'please' and 'thank you,' and remember to pass the cake to the little girls, and don't have more than two helps of anything."

Who acts: you, two · What happens: say, thank, remember, pass, not have, help · To what, where: you, cake, little girls · 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 (you, two), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 King	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 King	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 King	amod
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Be	nsubj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Be	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 please	punct
11	please	please	INTJ	_	9 say	obj
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 please	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thank	cc
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 thank	punct
15	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 thank	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thank	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 thank	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 remember	cc
20	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 thank	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 pass	mark
22	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 remember	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cake	det
24	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pass	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 girls	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 girls	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 girls	amod
28	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pass	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 have	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 have	advmod
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 remember	conj
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	36 two	advmod
35	than	than	ADP	_	34 more	fixed
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 helps	nsubj
37	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 have	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 anything	case
39	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 helps	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent please=Topic
2	thank speech: thank	present	you not said here		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	remember	infinitive	you not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	pass	to-infinitive	you not said here	the cake	the little girls		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cake=Theme to girl=Recipient
5	not have	infinitive · do-support	you not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	help	present	two			of anything	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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