The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 255
Tame ones are served with apple sauce and onion stuffing.
What happens: serve · To what, where: Tame ones
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: 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 | Tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ones | amod |
| 2 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 served | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 served | aux:pass |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sauce | case |
| 6 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sauce | compound |
| 7 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 served | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stuffing | cc |
| 9 | onion | onion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuffing | compound |
| 10 | stuffing | stuffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sauce | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present · passive | Tame ones | with apple sauce and onion stuffing | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with sauce=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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