The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 94
A daylight hunt is quite good enough for me, you silly pig keeper."
Who acts: daylight hunt, you · What happens: be, keeper
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 (daylight hunt, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hunt | det |
| 2 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunt | compound |
| 3 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 good | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keeper | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 keeper | nsubj |
| 12 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 keeper | amod |
| 13 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keeper | compound |
| 14 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 keeper | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 keeper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a daylight hunt | for me; enough, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keeper | you | tree rules |
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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