The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 187

And the dragon was so dull from having been alone for ten years that he said: "Come in, dears."

Who acts: dragon · What happens: be, say, come in · To what, where: ten years, dears · 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 (dragon), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 dull	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dull	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dull	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 dull	advmod
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	13 years	case
8	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 years	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 years	cop
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 been	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
12	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dull	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 said	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 years	acl:relcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Come	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Come	punct
19	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 Come	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dears	punct
22	dears	dear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Come	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dull	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dragon			dull property	tree rules
2	is	gerund · perfect			from ten years		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Dragon	ten years			tree rules
4	come in in a quote	infinitive		dears			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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