The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 259
"Well, but look here," said the dragon, "couldn't you pretend I was a tame dragon?
Who acts: dragon, you · What happens: look, say, not pretend, be · To what, where: tame 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 look | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 look | cc |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 look | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pretend | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pretend | punct |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pretend | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 pretend | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pretend | nsubj |
| 17 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 dragon | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dragon | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dragon | det |
| 21 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dragon | amod |
| 22 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pretend | parataxis |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not pretend in a quote | could | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | the dragon = dragon | a tame dragon | 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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