The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 233
"Well," said the dragon, "I don't see what you want with breakfast.
Who acts: dragon, you · What happens: say, not see, want · 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 (dragon, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 want | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 want | nsubj |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 breakfast | case |
| 18 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 want | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | the dragon = dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | you | with breakfast | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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