The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 130
If you say I did, I shall cut your head off at once."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, do, cut off · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 say | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | advcl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | aux |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 cut | compound:prt |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 cut | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cut off | shall | I | your head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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