The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 81
"It would be so undignified," objected the dragon.
Who acts: case, dragon · What happens: be, object · 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 (case, 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 | _ | 6 undignified | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 undignified | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 undignified | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 undignified | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 undignified | advmod |
| 6 | undignified | undignified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 objected | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 undignified | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 undignified | punct |
| 9 | objected | object | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 objected | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 objected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would | case | undignified property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | object speech: other | past | the dragon | vn complain-37.8 «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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