The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 220
"Well, then," said Tina, "you must all bring your basins of bread and milk to the forge tomorrow at breakfast time."
Who acts: Tina, you · What happens: say, bring · To what, where: basins · 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, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Tina | Tina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 bring | advmod |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 basins | nmod:poss |
| 16 | basins | basin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bring | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bread | case |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 basins | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 milk | cc |
| 20 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 basins | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 tomorrow | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tomorrow | det |
| 23 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tomorrow | compound |
| 24 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 26 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 time | compound |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tina | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | must | you | your basins of bread and milk | time; tomorrow | all property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent basin=Theme |
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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