The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 118
"There's a dragon in my dungeon," he said; "I've chained him up.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: be, say, chain up · To what, where: Dragon · 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 's | expl |
| 3 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 's | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dungeon | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dungeon | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragon | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | 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 | _ | 17 chained | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 chained | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 chained | nsubj |
| 16 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 chained | aux |
| 17 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 chained | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 chained | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a dragon in my dungeon | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | chain up in a quote | present · perfect | Dragon | Dragon | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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