The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 123
"Oh, well," said the mayor, "if anything should happen, you will always be able to remember that your baby perished in a good cause."
Who acts: mayor, anything, you · What happens: say, happen, be, remember, perish · To what, where: baby, good cause · 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 (mayor, anything, you), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mayor | det |
| 9 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 happen | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 happen | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 happen | mark |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 happen | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 happen | aux |
| 15 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 able | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 able | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 able | aux |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 able | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | cop |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 happen | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 remember | mark |
| 23 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | xcomp |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 baby | mark |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 baby | nmod:poss |
| 26 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remember | obj |
| 27 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 baby | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 cause | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 cause | det |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 cause | amod |
| 31 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 perished | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 happen | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mayor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | should | anything | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | you | able, always property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | remember in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your baby | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | ||||
| 5 | perish in a quote | participle | your baby not said here | a good cause | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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