The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 73
"Go on with you, you silly man," said the dragon, "you don't know your own silly mind.
Who acts: you, dragon, your · What happens: go on, man, say, not know, mind · To what, where: own silly mind · 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 (you, dragon, your), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nsubj |
| 8 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | 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 | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mind | amod |
| 23 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mind | amod |
| 24 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 know | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | infinitive | with you | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | man in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | you | your own silly mind | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mind=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mind in a quote | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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