The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 248

"And the mayor has told him where you are," Tina went on, "and he is coming to eat you as soon as he has sharpened his big knife.

Who acts: Dragon, Tina · What happens: tell, be, go on, come, eat, sharpen · To what, where: mayor, Dragon, you, big knife · 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, Tina), 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	_	6 told	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mayor	det
4	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 are	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 are	nsubj
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	Tina	Tina	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
15	on	on	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 coming	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 coming	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 coming	aux
21	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 told	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 eat	mark
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 coming	xcomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 eat	obj
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 soon	advmod
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 eat	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 sharpened	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sharpened	nsubj
29	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 sharpened	aux
30	sharpened	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 soon	advcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 knife	nmod:poss
32	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 knife	amod
33	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sharpened	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the mayor	Dragon		tree rules
2	does in a quote	present	Dragon				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go on	past	Tina				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come in a quote	present · progressive	Tina				tree rules
5	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	Tina not said here	you		soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
6	sharpen in a quote	present · perfect	Tina	Tina's big knife			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=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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