The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 204
Then Tina and Johnnie went to the mayor and corporation and said, "The giant is settled.
Who acts: Tina · What happens: go, say, settle · To what, where: mayor, giant · 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | Tina | Tina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Johnnie | cc |
| 4 | Johnnie | Johnnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tina | conj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mayor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mayor | det |
| 8 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 corporation | cc |
| 10 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mayor | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 settled | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 settled | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 settled | aux:pass |
| 18 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Tina and Johnnie | the mayor and corporation | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mayor=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tina and Johnnie not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | settle in a quote | present · passive | the giant | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
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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