The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 212
But the mayor said he need not trouble; and now he offered a thousand pounds to anyone who would get the dragon chained up again.
Who acts: mayor, Dragon · What happens: say, not need, offer, get, chain up · To what, where: trouble, thousand pounds, anyone, 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 (mayor, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mayor | det |
| 3 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 need | nsubj |
| 6 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 need | advmod |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 need | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 offered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 offered | cc |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 offered | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 offered | nsubj |
| 13 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thousand | det |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 pounds | nummod |
| 16 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 offered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 anyone | case |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 offered | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 get | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dragon | det |
| 23 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obj |
| 24 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 dragon | acl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 chained | compound:prt |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 chained | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mayor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not need | infinitive | Dragon | trouble | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot trouble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | offer | past | Dragon | thousand pounds | anyone | now | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent pound=Theme to anyone=Goal | ||
| 4 | get | would | the dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | chain up | participle | the dragon not said here | again | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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