The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 32
Why, I shall have to go down there after more coals in a minute."
Who acts: I · What happens: have, go down
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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 have | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 there | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 go | advmod |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 coals | case |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 coals | amod |
| 12 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 minute | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minute | det |
| 15 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go down | to-infinitive | I not said here | there | after more coals; minute | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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