The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 20
Of course, it's quite safe for me, in my dragonproof tower; but if it is a dragon, it's quite big enough to eat people, and today's the first of May, and the children go out to get flowers in the wood."
Who acts: thing, it, children · What happens: be, eat, go out, get · To what, where: dragon, people, today first, flowers, wood
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 (thing, it, children), 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 | Of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 safe | mark |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 safe | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 safe | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 safe | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 safe | advmod |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 safe | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tower | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tower | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dragonproof | dragonproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tower | amod |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 safe | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 big | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 big | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 dragon | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dragon | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 dragon | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dragon | det |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 big | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dragon | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 big | nsubj |
| 24 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 big | cop |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 big | advmod |
| 26 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 safe | conj |
| 27 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 26 big | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 eat | mark |
| 29 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 big | xcomp |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 eat | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 first | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 first | cc |
| 33 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 first | compound |
| 34 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 first | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 first | det |
| 36 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 safe | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 May | case |
| 38 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 first | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 go | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 go | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 children | det |
| 42 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 go | nsubj |
| 43 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 safe | conj |
| 44 | out | out | ADV | _ | 43 go | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 get | mark |
| 46 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 go | advcl |
| 47 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 get | obj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 wood | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 wood | det |
| 50 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 get | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 safe | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | thing | for me; safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | thing | a dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | it | big, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | thing not said here | the today first | may | tree rules | |||
| 6 | go out | present | the children | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | get | to-infinitive | the children not said here | flowers | the wood | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
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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