The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 279
I _am_ a tame dragon now, aren't I?"
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: tame dragon, I
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dragon | nsubj |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 I | punct |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dragon | cop |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 6 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dragon | amod |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 dragon | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 now | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 I | cop |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 I | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dragon | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragon | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a tame dragon | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is a | present | I not said here | I | tree rules |
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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