The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 112
If you'll excuse me, sir, I'll step around to another forge and get a few dozen.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: excuse, step around, get · To what, where: me, forge, few dozen
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, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 excuse | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 excuse | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 excuse | aux |
| 4 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 step | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 excuse | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sir | punct |
| 7 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 excuse | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 excuse | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 step | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 step | aux |
| 11 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | around | around | ADV | _ | 11 step | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 forge | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 forge | det |
| 15 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 step | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 step | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dozen | det |
| 19 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dozen | amod |
| 20 | dozen | dozen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 step | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | sir vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | step around | future | I | another forge | around property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to forge=Destination | |||
| 3 | get | infinitive | I not said here | a few dozen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dozen=Stimulus |
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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