The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 123
Let's take him home and put Solomon's seal on the mouth of the bottle, and then he'll be safe enough.
Who acts: you, 's, Prince · What happens: let, take, put, be · To what, where: 's, Prince, seal, mouth
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 's, Prince), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 take | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 8 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seal | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Solomon | case |
| 10 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mouth | det |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bottle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bottle | det |
| 16 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mouth | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 safe | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 safe | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 safe | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 safe | nsubj |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 safe | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 safe | cop |
| 23 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 24 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 23 safe | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | 's not said here | Prince | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | 's not said here | Solomon's seal | the mouth of the bottle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme on mouth=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | future | Prince | then | enough, safe property | tree rules |
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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