The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 89

You must think of something else, and at once, or I'll eat you first."

Who acts: You, I · What happens: think, eat · To what, where: you

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, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 something	case
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 think	obl
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 something	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 once	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 once	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 think	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 eat	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 eat	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 eat	aux
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 eat	obj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 eat	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	must	You					of something; once property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	future	I	you				first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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