The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 106
"You just purr to it, sir," he said, "and it'll be as good as gold."
Who acts: You, John, compliment · What happens: purr, say, be · To what, where: 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 (You, John, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 purr | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 purr | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 purr | advmod |
| 4 | purr | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 purr | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sir | punct |
| 8 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 purr | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 purr | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 purr | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 good | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 good | nsubj |
| 17 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 good | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 good | advmod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 good | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr in a quote | present | You | compliment | sir vocative | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | John | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | compliment | as gold; good 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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