The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 59
"I might, sir," said John, politely, for you must always be polite to a possible customer, even if he be a dragon.
Who acts: John, you · What happens: sir, say, be · 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 (John, 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 | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sir | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sir | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 5 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 politely | punct |
| 11 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 polite | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 polite | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 polite | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 polite | aux |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 polite | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 polite | cop |
| 18 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 customer | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 customer | det |
| 21 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 customer | amod |
| 22 | customer | customer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 polite | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dragon | punct |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 29 dragon | advmod |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 dragon | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 dragon | nsubj |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 dragon | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 dragon | det |
| 29 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 polite | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sir in a quote | might | John | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | John | politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | must | you | to a possible customer; always, polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | John | a dragon | tree rules |
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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