The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 232
"The only cure for a dragon burn," said the old nurse, "is pig's fat, and well that faithful creature knows it----"
Who acts: only cure, faithful creature · What happens: say, be, know · To what, where: old nurse, fat, cure · 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 (only cure, faithful creature), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cure | det |
| 3 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cure | amod |
| 4 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 burn | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 burn | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burn | compound |
| 8 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cure | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cure | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fat | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nurse | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nurse | amod |
| 14 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fat | cop |
| 18 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fat | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 pig | case |
| 20 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 knows | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 knows | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 creature | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 creature | det |
| 25 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 creature | amod |
| 26 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knows | nsubj |
| 27 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fat | parataxis |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 knows | obj |
| 29 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 27 knows | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the only cure for a dragon burn | the old nurse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nurse=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | pig's fat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | that faithful creature | cure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=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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