The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 205

Please give us the thousand pounds reward."

Who acts: you, thousand pounds · What happens: give, reward · To what, where: us

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, thousand pounds), 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	Please	please	INTJ	_	2 give	discourse
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pounds	det
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pounds	nummod
6	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reward	nsubj
7	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	parataxis
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here		us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	reward	present	the thousand pounds						vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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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