The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 195
"If what you say is true," she said, "if you are sure that I have a heart of gold, the dragon won't hurt me, and somebody must stay with the pigs."
Who acts: you, Dragon, somebody · What happens: say, be, have, not hurt, stay · To what, where: heart, Dragon · 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, Dragon, somebody), 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 | _ | 7 true | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 true | mark |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 true | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | cop |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 sure | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 sure | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | cop |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 have | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 hurt | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 heart | det |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heart | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dragon | det |
| 27 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hurt | nsubj |
| 28 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 hurt | aux |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 hurt | advmod |
| 30 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 hurt | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stay | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 stay | cc |
| 34 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 stay | nsubj |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 stay | aux |
| 36 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 hurt | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 pigs | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pigs | det |
| 39 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 stay | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | true property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | Dragon | a heart of gold | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not hurt in a quote | future | the dragon | Dragon | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | ||||
| 7 | stay in a quote | must | somebody | with the pigs | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with pig=Location |
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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