The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 98
"All right, sir," said John, "but I ought to warn you.
Who acts: right sir · What happens: say, warn · To what, where: you · 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 (right sir), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sir | det |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sir | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 5 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 John | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 John | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 ought | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ought | nsubj |
| 14 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 warn | mark |
| 16 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ought | xcomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 warn | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | all right sir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn in a quote | to-infinitive | all right sir not said here | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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