The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 71
"Well then, I'll eat you first," said the dragon.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: eat, say · To what, where: you · 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), 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 eat | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 eat | discourse |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Well | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | aux |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 eat | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eat | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 eat | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | future | the dragon = dragon | you | first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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