The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 56
"Oh, I don't mean what you mean," said the dragon, "but I should like you to do a job for me.
Who acts: dragon, you · What happens: not mean, mean, say, like, do · To what, where: you, job · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 mean | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mean | advmod |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 mean | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 mean | nsubj |
| 10 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dragon | det |
| 15 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 like | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 like | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 like | aux |
| 21 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 like | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 like | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 job | det |
| 26 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 do | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean in a quote | present · do-support | the dragon = dragon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | like in a quote | should | the dragon = dragon | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the dragon = dragon not said here | a job | for the dragon = dragon | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=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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