The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 125
"You've given the baby to the dragon!" she cried. "
Who acts: You, mayor · What happens: give, cry · To what, where: baby, 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 (You, mayor), 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 given | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 cried | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 baby | det |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 dragon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present · perfect | You | the baby | the dragon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent baby=Theme to dragon=Recipient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | mayor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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