The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 267

This was all very well for Johnnie and Tina; but if you are kind children with feeling hearts you will perhaps feel sorry for the poor deceived, deluded dragon--chained up in the dull dungeon, with nothing to do but to think over the shocking untruths that Johnnie had told him.

Who acts: This, you, poor, Johnnie · What happens: be, feel, deceive, delude, chain up, do · To what, where: kind children, feeling hearts, dragon, dull dungeon, shocking untruths · 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 (This, you, poor, Johnnie), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 well	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 well	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Johnnie	case
7	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 well	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Tina	cc
9	Tina	Tina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Johnnie	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 children	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 children	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 children	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 children	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 children	cop
15	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 children	amod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 well	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 hearts	case
18	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hearts	compound
19	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 children	nmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 feel	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 feel	aux
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	23 feel	advmod
23	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hearts	acl:relcl
24	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feel	xcomp
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 deceived	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 poor	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 deceived	nsubj
28	deceived	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sorry	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 deluded	punct
30	deluded	delude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 deceived	conj
31	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 deluded	obj
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 chained	punct
33	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 deluded	xcomp
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 chained	compound:prt
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 dungeon	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dungeon	det
37	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 dungeon	amod
38	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chained	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 nothing	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 nothing	case
41	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 chained	parataxis
42	to	to	PART	_	43 do	mark
43	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 nothing	acl
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 think	cc
45	to	to	PART	_	46 think	mark
46	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 do	conj
47	over	over	ADP	_	50 untruths	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 untruths	det
49	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 untruths	amod
50	untruths	untruth	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 think	obl
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 told	mark
52	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 told	nsubj
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 told	aux
54	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 untruths	acl:relcl
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 told	iobj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 well	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	This				for Johnnie and Tina; all, well property	tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	you	kind children			with feeling hearts	tree rules
3	feel	future	you	feeling hearts not said here			perhaps, sorry property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
4	deceive	past	the poor					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	delude	past	the poor not said here	dragon				tree rules
6	chain up	participle	the poor not said here			the dull dungeon		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	do	to-infinitive	the poor not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the poor not said here			the shocking untruths		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Johnnie	the shocking untruths not said here	Dragon			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/267/