The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 200
You've eaten your own drakling--swallowed it with the town.
Who acts: You · What happens: eat, swallow · To what, where: own drakling, meal
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 eaten | nsubj |
| 2 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eaten | aux |
| 3 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 drakling | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drakling | amod |
| 6 | drakling | drakling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eaten | obj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 swallowed | punct |
| 8 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 eaten | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 swallowed | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swallowed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · perfect | You | your own drakling | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drakling=Patient | ||||
| 2 | swallow | past | You not said here | meal | with the town | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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