The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 249
"Why, who must you marry to cure your dragon burns?" asked Sabrinetta.
What happens: marry, cure, burn, ask · To what, where: dragon, Sabrinetta · 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: 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 marry | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 marry | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 marry | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 marry | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 marry | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 marry | nsubj |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 burns | csubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cure | mark |
| 9 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 marry | xcomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dragon | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cure | obj |
| 12 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 burns | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 burns | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 burns | advcl |
| 16 | Sabrinetta | Sabrinetta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 burns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | must | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cure in a quote | to-infinitive | your dragon | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer dragon=Source | |||||
| 3 | burn in a quote | present | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Sabrinetta | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sabrinetta=Recipient |
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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