The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 102
The dragon purred at this compliment and said: "All right, I'll be careful.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: purr, say, be · To what, where: dragon, compliment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | purred | purr | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dragon | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 compliment | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 compliment | det |
| 6 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 purred | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 purred | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 right | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 right | punct |
| 11 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 right | det |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 careful | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 careful | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 careful | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 careful | cop |
| 17 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 right | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr | participle | the dragon not said here | this compliment | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at compliment=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | the dragon = dragon | careful property | tree rules |
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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