The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 192
I can easily get you one of those--because everything in my tower is dragonproof.
Who acts: I, everything · What happens: get, be · To what, where: one, you
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 (I, everything), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 those | case |
| 8 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 dragonproof | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 dragonproof | mark |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 dragonproof | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tower | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 everything | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dragonproof | cop |
| 16 | dragonproof | dragonproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | I | one of those | you | easily property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary one=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | present | everything | dragonproof 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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