The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 68

You mend my wing, and then I'll go out and eat up all the town, and if you make a really smart job of it I'll eat you last.

Who acts: You, I, town · What happens: mend, go out, eat up, make, eat, job · To what, where: wing, town, smart job, you

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, I, town), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 mend	nsubj
2	mend	mend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wing	nmod:poss
4	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mend	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 go	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mend	conj
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eat	cc
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 go	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 eat	compound:prt
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 town	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 town	det
17	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 eat	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 eat	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 make	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 make	nsubj
22	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 eat	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 job	det
24	really	really	ADV	_	25 smart	advmod
25	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 job	amod
26	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 job	nmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 eat	nsubj
30	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 eat	aux
31	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	advcl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 eat	obj
33	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 eat	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mend	present	You	my wing			tree rules
2	go out	future	I		then	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat up	infinitive	I not said here	all town			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient
4	make a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a smart job of town			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Product
5	eat	future	I	you		last property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
6	job		town				nom job «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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