The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 58
Then the skipper said: "All good things defend you, Nigel, from sailing near that light.
Who acts: skipper, good things · What happens: say, defend, sail · To what, where: you, light · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (skipper, good things), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 skipper | det |
| 3 | skipper | skipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 defend | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 defend | punct |
| 7 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 things | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 defend | nsubj |
| 10 | defend | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 defend | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Nigel | punct |
| 13 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 defend | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sailing | punct |
| 15 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 16 sailing | mark |
| 16 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 light | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 light | det |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sailing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the skipper | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | defend in a quote | present | all good things | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sail in a quote | gerund | the skipper not said here | that light | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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