The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 272

And the next time the tourists came, and Johnnie let off the colored fire, the dragon said shyly: "Excuse my troubling you, but could you bring me a little more bread and milk?"

Who acts: tourists, Johnnie, dragon, you · What happens: come, let off, color, say, excuse, bring · To what, where: colored fire, troubling, little more bread, 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 (tourists, Johnnie, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tourists	det
6	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
10	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 let	nsubj
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 let	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
14	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 fire	amod
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dragon	det
18	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
20	shyly	shyly	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Excuse	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Excuse	punct
23	Excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 troubling	nmod:poss
25	troubling	troubling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Excuse	obj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 Excuse	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bring	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 bring	cc
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 bring	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 bring	nsubj
31	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Excuse	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 bring	obj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 little	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bread	amod
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 bread	amod
36	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bring	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 milk	cc
38	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bread	conj
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 Excuse	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Excuse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the tourists			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let off	past	Johnnie	the colored fire				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	color	participle						vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: ask	past	the dragon				shyly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	excuse in a quote	infinitive		my troubling				tree rules
6	bring in a quote	could	you	little more bread and milk	the dragon = dragon			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination bread=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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