The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 154
You can bring it back in the morning before the blacksmith comes."
Who acts: You, blacksmith · What happens: bring back, come · To what, where: sleep
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, blacksmith), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | aux |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 bring | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 morning | det |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obl |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 comes | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blacksmith | det |
| 11 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | can | You | sleep | morning | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | present | the blacksmith | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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