The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 77

It's all fair and smooth, and 'Please rivet me, and I'll eat you last'--and then you get to work and you give a gentleman a bit of a nip or a dig under his rivets--and then it's fire and smoke, and no apologies will meet the case."

Who acts: One, I, you, apologies · What happens: be, rivet, eat, get, work, give · To what, where: me, you, bit, gentleman, fire, case

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 (One, I, you, apologies), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fair	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fair	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 fair	advmod
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 smooth	cc
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fair	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rivet	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rivet	cc
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 rivet	punct
10	Please	please	INTJ	_	11 rivet	discourse
11	rivet	rivet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fair	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 rivet	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	aux
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 rivet	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 eat	obj
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eat	obl
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 last	punct
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 get	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 get	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 get	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 get	nsubj
25	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fair	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 work	mark
27	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 get	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 give	cc
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 give	nsubj
30	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 get	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 gentleman	det
32	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bit	det
34	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 nip	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 nip	det
37	nip	nip	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bit	nmod
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 dig	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 dig	det
40	dig	dig	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 nip	conj
41	under	under	ADP	_	43 rivets	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 rivets	nmod:poss
43	rivets	rivet	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 dig	nmod
44	--	--	PUNCT	_	49 fire	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 fire	cc
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 fire	advmod
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fire	nsubj
48	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 fire	cop
49	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fair	parataxis
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 smoke	cc
51	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fire	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 meet	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 meet	cc
54	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	55 apologies	det
55	apologies	apology	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 meet	nsubj
56	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 meet	aux
57	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fair	conj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 case	det
59	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 meet	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fair	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	One				all, fair property	tree rules
2	be		One not said here					tree rules
3	rivet	infinitive	One not said here	me				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	eat	future	I	you			last obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	get	present	you			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	work	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	give	present	you	a bit of a nip or a dig under gentleman's rivets	a gentleman			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gentleman=Recipient bit=Theme
8	is a	present	One	fire and smoke		then		tree rules
9	meet	future	no apologies	the case				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Co-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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