The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 249
The mayor told him you were a wild dragon--but he didn't mind.
Who acts: mayor, you, Tina · What happens: tell, be, not mind · To what, where: Tina, wild dragon · 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 (mayor, you, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mayor | det |
| 2 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 dragon | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dragon | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dragon | amod |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | ccomp |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 mind | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 mind | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mind | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 mind | advmod |
| 15 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the mayor | Tina | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | you | a wild dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not mind | past · do-support | Tina | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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