The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 187
"You asked me to take care of you," said Elfin, "and I will--all my life long."
Who acts: You, Elfin · What happens: ask, take, say · To what, where: Elfin, care · 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, Elfin), 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 | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 7 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Elfin | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Elfin | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 will | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 will | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 life | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 life | det:predet |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 life | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 life | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 life | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | You | Elfin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | care | of you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of you=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Elfin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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