The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 135

If you bring the drakling here to me, I'll tell you what to do next.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: bring, tell, do · To what, where: drakling, me, you · 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 (you, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 bring	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 bring	nsubj
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drakling	det
5	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bring	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bring	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bring	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	ccomp
17	next	next	ADV	_	16 do	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the drakling	me	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drakling=Theme to i=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	future	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive					next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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