The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 262
If you were our tame dragon we should keep you tied up, you know.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, keep, tie up, know · To what, where: tame dragon, you
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, we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 dragon | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 dragon | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dragon | cop |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dragon | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dragon | amod |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | advcl |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | aux |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | obj |
| 11 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 tied | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | you | our tame dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | should | we | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tie up | participle | you not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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