The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 60
"A master craftsman--you are a master, of course?--can see in a minute what's wrong," the dragon went on. "
Who acts: you, master craftsman, minute, dragon · What happens: be, see, go on · To what, where: master
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, master craftsman, minute, 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 | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 craftsman | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 craftsman | compound |
| 4 | craftsman | craftsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | nsubj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 master | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 master | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 master | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 master | det |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 craftsman | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 course | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 course | case |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 craftsman | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 craftsman | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 craftsman | punct |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 minute | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 minute | det |
| 19 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 wrong | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wrong | cop |
| 22 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 minute | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | a master | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | can | a master craftsman and course | minute | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a minute | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | the dragon | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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