The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 289
"More where that came from," said he, and fetched more and more and more, till they told him to stop.
Who acts: that, Dragon, tourists · What happens: come, say, fetch, tell, stop · To what, where: 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 (that, Dragon, tourists), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 where | advmod |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fetched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fetched | cc |
| 13 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 fetched | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 more | cc |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 more | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 more | cc |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 more | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 told | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fetched | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 stop | mark |
| 25 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 told | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | that | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fetch | past | Dragon not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | tourists = tourist | Dragon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | tourists = tourist not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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