The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 257
Good-bye, poor dragon, we shall never see you again, and now you'll know what it's like to be eaten."
Who acts: Good poor dragon, you · What happens: not see, know, be · To what, where: you · 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 (Good poor dragon, you), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dragon | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 bye | punct |
| 3 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 1 Good | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragon | punct |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dragon | amod |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragon | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 see | advmod |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 know | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | conj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 eaten | cop |
| 23 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 26 eaten | mark |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 eaten | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 eaten | aux:pass |
| 26 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 know | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | shall | Good poor dragon | you | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | future | you | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present · passive | eat property | 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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