The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 38
And you and I, dear Queen, will sit in stone at the gate of the tower.
Who acts: I · What happens: sit · To what, where: stone
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 (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sit | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 I | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 I | cc |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sit | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Queen | punct |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Queen | amod |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 I | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sit | aux |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gate | det |
| 15 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tower | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tower | det |
| 18 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gate | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | future | I | stone | at the gate of the tower | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stone=Location |
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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