The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 280
And when they said that yes, he was, the dragon said: "I am so tame, won't you undo me?"
Who acts: people, Dragon, you · What happens: say, be, not undo · To what, where: dragon, people · 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 (people, 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 said | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 6 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 12 dragon | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 yes | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dragon | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dragon | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragon | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | advcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 tame | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tame | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tame | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tame | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 tame | advmod |
| 19 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 undo | punct |
| 21 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 undo | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 undo | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 undo | nsubj |
| 24 | undo | undo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tame | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 undo | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 undo | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 undo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Dragon | the dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | people | tame property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not undo in a quote | future | you | people | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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