The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 211
Shall I send him to claim the reward?"
Who acts: I · What happens: send, claim · To what, where: Dragon, reward
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 (I), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 send | nsubj |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 send | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 claim | mark |
| 6 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reward | det |
| 8 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 claim | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | shall | I | Dragon | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | the reward | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reward=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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