The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 195
"Yes, I might," answered the dragon, "but then again I mightn't."
Who acts: dragon · What happens: answer
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 might | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Yes | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 might | csubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 might | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 again | advmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 might | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 might | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 might | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 might | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 might | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the dragon | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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