The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 129

"If I were you," said his friend, stretching itself out in the pool of flame so that the waves covered him up to his chin, "I should find the drakling and bring it here."

Who acts: friend, waves · What happens: be, say, stretch out, cover up, find, bring · To what, where: you, patience, do, drakling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, waves), 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	_	5 you	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 you	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 you	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 you	cop
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 you	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 you	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friend	nmod:poss
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stretching	punct
12	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 stretching	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 stretching	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pool	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pool	det
17	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stretching	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 flame	case
19	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pool	nmod
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 covered	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 waves	det
23	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 covered	nsubj
24	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stretching	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 covered	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 covered	compound:prt
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 chin	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 chin	nmod:poss
29	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 covered	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 find	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 find	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 find	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 find	aux
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 drakling	det
36	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 find	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 bring	cc
38	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 find	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 bring	obj
40	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 bring	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	do's friend = friend	you				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	do's friend					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stretch out	gerund	do's friend not said here	patience			in the pool of flame	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Patient in pool=Topic
4	cover up	past	the waves		do		to do's chin	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
5	find in a quote	should	do's friend = friend	the drakling				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drakling=Topic
6	bring in a quote	infinitive	do's friend = friend not said here	patience		here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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