The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 124
Come along--we'll divide up the kingdom tomorrow, and then I shall have some money to buy fine clothes to go courting in."
Who acts: you, we, I, money · What happens: come along, divide up, have, buy, go, court · To what, where: kingdom, money, fine clothes
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, we, I, money), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | along | along | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 divide | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 divide | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 divide | aux |
| 6 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 divide | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 divide | obj |
| 10 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 divide | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 have | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 money | det |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 buy | mark |
| 20 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | xcomp |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 clothes | amod |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 buy | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 buy | advcl |
| 25 | courting | court | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 go | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 courting | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | imperative | you not said here | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | divide up | future | we | the kingdom | tomorrow | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | shall | I | some money | then | tree rules | |||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | some money not said here | fine clothes | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | some money not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | court | gerund | some money not said here | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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