The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 157
So now John went to the mayor, and said: "I've got the dragon and I've saved the town."
Who acts: John · What happens: go, say, get, save · To what, where: mayor, dragon, town · 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 (John), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mayor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mayor | det |
| 7 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dragon | det |
| 17 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saved | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 saved | nsubj |
| 20 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 saved | aux |
| 21 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 got | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saved | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | John | the mayor | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mayor=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | John not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · perfect | John | the dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | save in a quote | present · perfect | John | the town | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=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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