The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 193
We ought to do something to settle the dragon and save the little children."
Who acts: We · What happens: do, settle, save · To what, where: something, dragon, little children
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 settle | mark |
| 7 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 something | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 settle | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 save | cc |
| 11 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 children | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 children | amod |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 save | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | ought | We | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | settle | to-infinitive | We not said here | the dragon | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dragon=Location | ||||
| 3 | save | present | We not said here | the little children | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
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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