The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 158
"Noble preserver," cried the mayor, "we will get up a subscription for you, and crown you in public with a laurel wreath."
Who acts: Noble preserver, we · What happens: cry, get up, crown · To what, where: mayor, subscription, you, public · 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 (Noble preserver, we), 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 | _ | 3 preserver | punct |
| 2 | Noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 preserver | amod |
| 3 | preserver | preserver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserver | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserver | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mayor | det |
| 8 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 get | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 subscription | det |
| 16 | subscription | subscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 get | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crown | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crown | cc |
| 21 | crown | crown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 get | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 crown | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 public | case |
| 24 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 crown | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 wreath | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 wreath | det |
| 27 | laurel | laurel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wreath | compound |
| 28 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crown | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Noble preserver | the mayor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mayor=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get up in a quote | future | we | a subscription | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subscription=Theme for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | crown in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | you | public | with a laurel wreath | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Destination with wreath=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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