The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 205
"Now then," said Elfin, "you hold the bottle."
Who acts: Elfin, you · What happens: say, hold · To what, where: bottle · 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 (Elfin, you), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hold | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 hold | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 hold | nsubj |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bottle | det |
| 13 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hold | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Elfin | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold in a quote | present | you | the bottle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=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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