The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 235
"Dear Mr. Dragon," said Tina, "I wish you wouldn't eat us.
Who acts: Dear Dragon, you · What happens: say, wish, not eat · To what, where: us · 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 (Dear 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 | _ | 4 Dragon | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Dragon | amod |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dragon | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dragon | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dragon | 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 | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 eat | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 eat | advmod |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | ccomp |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dear Dragon Mr. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | Dear Dragon Mr. = dragon | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not eat in a quote | would | you | us | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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