The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 234
I'm going to eat everyone in the town as soon as I've rested a little."
Who acts: I · What happens: go, eat, rest · To what, where: everyone, town, little
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 eat | mark |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 eat | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 eat | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 rested | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 rested | nsubj |
| 14 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rested | aux |
| 15 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 soon | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 little | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rested | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | everyone | the town | soon property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient | ||
| 3 | rest | present · perfect | I | a little | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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