The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 252
And I suppose this sloppy stuff in the tub is the bread sauce?"
Who acts: I, sloppy stuff · What happens: suppose, be · To what, where: bread sauce · 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 (I, sloppy stuff), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 suppose | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 stuff | det |
| 5 | sloppy | sloppy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stuff | amod |
| 6 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sauce | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tub | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tub | det |
| 9 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuff | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sauce | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sauce | det |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sauce | compound |
| 13 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 sauce | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sauce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this sloppy stuff in the tub | the bread sauce | tree rules |
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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