The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 196
"Why--you'd never fight him?" said Tina.
Who acts: you, Tina · What happens: not fight, say · To what, where: Dragon · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 7 fight | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fight | advmod |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 fight | nsubj |
| 5 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fight | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 fight | advmod |
| 7 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fight | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 fight | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fight | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Tina | Tina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fight in a quote | would | you | Dragon | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Tina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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