The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 188
"You won't hurt us, or breathe fire at us or anything?" asked Tina.
Who acts: Tina · What happens: not hurt, breathe, ask · To what, where: us, fire, Tina · 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 (Tina), 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 | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 breathe | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 breathe | cc |
| 9 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hurt | conj |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 breathe | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 breathe | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 anything | cc |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 us | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Tina | Tina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt in a quote | future | Tina | us | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Patient | ||||
| 2 | breathe in a quote | infinitive | Tina not said here | fire | at us | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Tina | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent tina=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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