The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 209
I'll put my finger in for a stopper."
Who acts: I · What happens: put · To what, where: finger, stopper
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), 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 | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 finger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 stopper | case |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 stopper | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stopper | det |
| 9 | stopper | stopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | future | I | my finger | a stopper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in stopper=Destination |
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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