The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 45
"No you don't," said the dragon in a spluttering voice, like a damp squib.
Who acts: you, dragon · What happens: not do, say · To what, where: spluttering voice · 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 (you, dragon), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | discourse |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | spluttering | spluttering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 voice | compound |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 squib | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 squib | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 squib | det |
| 18 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 squib | amod |
| 19 | squib | squib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 voice | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | a spluttering voice and a damp squib | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner |
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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