The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 271

So he thought, "If giants like this damp, white stuff, perhaps I should like it too," and he tasted a little, and liked it so much that he ate it all up.

Who acts: creature · What happens: think, like, taste, eat up · To what, where: stuff, little · 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 (creature), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 thought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 giants	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 giants	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 giants	mark
7	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	ccomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	13 stuff	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 stuff	nsubj
10	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stuff	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 damp	punct
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stuff	amod
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 giants	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 like	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	18 like	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tasted	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tasted	nsubj
25	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tasted	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 liked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 liked	cc
30	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 liked	obj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADV	_	30 liked	advmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 ate	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 ate	nsubj
36	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 liked	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 ate	obj
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 it	det
39	up	up	ADP	_	36 ate	compound:prt
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	creature			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	like in a quote	should	creature	stuff	perhaps property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	taste	past	creature	a little		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme little=Attribute
4	like	past	creature not said here	stuff		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	eat up	past	creature	stuff		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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