The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 151
Here, I say," said he, "do you know anything about babies?"
Who acts: I, Dragon, you · What happens: say, know · To what, where: anything · 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 (I, Dragon, 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 babies | case |
| 16 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 anything | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Dragon | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know | present · do-support | you | anything | about babies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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