The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 260
Tell the giant that I'm just a poor little timid tame dragon that you kept for a pet."
Who acts: you, giant · What happens: tell, be, keep · To what, where: giant, poor little timid 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 (you, giant), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 dragon | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 dragon | nsubj |
| 6 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dragon | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 dragon | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dragon | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dragon | amod |
| 11 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dragon | amod |
| 12 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dragon | amod |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giant | acl:relcl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 kept | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 kept | nsubj |
| 16 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 pet | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pet | det |
| 19 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kept | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the giant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the giant | a poor little timid tame dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | you | a poor little timid tame dragon | for a pet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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