The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 254
Of course," they added, "bread sauce is only served with wild dragons.
Who acts: children · What happens: add, serve · To what, where: bread sauce
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 (children), 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 | Of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 added | mark |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 added | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 added | nsubj |
| 6 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 served | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 added | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 served | punct |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sauce | compound |
| 10 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 served | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 served | aux:pass |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 served | advmod |
| 13 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 dragons | case |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dragons | amod |
| 16 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 served | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | children = child | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | serve | present · passive | bread sauce | with wild dragons | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with dragon=Theme |
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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