The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 214
Look how you treated my father when he chained up the dragon."
Who acts: you, father · What happens: look, treat, chain up · To what, where: father, dragon
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, father), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 treated | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 treated | nsubj |
| 4 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | advcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treated | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 chained | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 chained | nsubj |
| 9 | chained | chain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 chained | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chained | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | treat | past | you | my father | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | chain up | past | father | the dragon | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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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