The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 117
Be a good boy, and get your sum done."
Who acts: you, good boy, sum, your · What happens: be, get, do, sum · To what, where: good boy, sum
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, good boy, sum, your), 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 | 4 boy | cop |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 boy | acl:relcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sum | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 get | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | imperative | you not said here | a good boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | a good boy not said here | your sum | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | participle | your sum not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sum | your | nom sum «possession transitive»: poss=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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