The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 221
"And if ever I am mayor," said Johnnie, "I will give a banquet, and you shall be invited.
Who acts: mayor · What happens: be, say, give, invite · To what, where: mayor, banquet, you · 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), 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 mayor | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mayor | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 ever | mark |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 mayor | advcl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mayor | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mayor | cop |
| 7 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mayor | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mayor | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Johnnie | Johnnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 banquet | det |
| 18 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 invited | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 invited | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 invited | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 invited | aux:pass |
| 24 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 give | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | mayor | mayor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mayor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | mayor | a banquet | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme | ||||
| 4 | invite in a quote | shall · passive | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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