The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 83
"It's all very well," said the dragon, "but how do I know you'd untie me again when you'd riveted me?
Who acts: horse, dragon, you · What happens: be, say, know, untie, rivet · To what, where: dragon · 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 (horse, dragon, you), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 well | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 well | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 9 | said | say | 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 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 untie | cc |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 know | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 untie | csubj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 untie | nsubj |
| 20 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 untie | aux |
| 21 | untie | untie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 untie | obj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 untie | advmod |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 riveted | advmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 riveted | nsubj |
| 26 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 riveted | aux |
| 27 | riveted | rivet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 untie | advcl |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 riveted | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | horse | all, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present · do-support | the dragon = dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | untie in a quote | would | you | the dragon = dragon | again | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 5 | rivet in a quote | past · perfect | you | the dragon = dragon | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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