The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 95
"Oh, well," said Elfin, "do as you like about it--the dragon will come and hunt you tomorrow, as likely as not.
Who acts: Elfin, you, dragon · What happens: say, do, like, come, hunt · To what, where: you · 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, dragon), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 like | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | advcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 like | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dragon | det |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hunt | cc |
| 23 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 hunt | obj |
| 25 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hunt | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 likely | punct |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 likely | advmod |
| 28 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 come | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 not | case |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 likely | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Elfin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | like in a quote | present | you | about hunt | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | future | the dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hunt in a quote | infinitive | the dragon not said here | you | tomorrow | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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