The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 103
Now go and fetch the thing, whatever it is."
Who acts: you, compliment · What happens: go, fetch, be · To what, where: thing
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 (you, compliment), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 go | advmod |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fetch | cc |
| 4 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetch | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whatever | punct |
| 8 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 thing | appos |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 is | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fetch | infinitive | you not said here | the thing | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | present | compliment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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