The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 237
"Not at all," the dragon confessed, "but nobody will eat me."
Who acts: all, nobody · What happens: confess, eat · To what, where: Dear Dragon
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 (all, nobody), 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 | _ | 9 confessed | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 all | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 confessed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 confessed | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 confessed | nsubj |
| 9 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 confessed | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 confessed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 eat | cc |
| 13 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 confessed | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | past | all | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | future | nobody | Dear Dragon Mr. = dragon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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