The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 99
Babies are poison to dragons, so I don't deceive you.
Who acts: Babies, I · What happens: be, not deceive · To what, where: poison, 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 (Babies, 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 | Babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poison | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 poison | cop |
| 3 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 dragons | case |
| 5 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poison | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 deceive | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 deceive | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 deceive | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 deceive | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 deceive | advmod |
| 11 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 poison | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 deceive | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poison | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Babies | poison | to dragons | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not deceive | present · do-support | I | you | vn trick-59.2 «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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