The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 41
It seemed very stupid, and when Lionel gave it a push and said, "Go along and fight the Dragon, do," it put its tail between its legs and fairly ran away.
Who acts: It, Lionel, picture · What happens: seem, give, say, go along, fight, do · To what, where: picture, Dragon, tail, legs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Lionel, picture), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 stupid | advmod |
| 4 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 gave | advmod |
| 8 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 push | det |
| 12 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Go | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Go | punct |
| 17 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 18 | along | along | ADV | _ | 17 Go | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fight | cc |
| 20 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 Go | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Dragon | det |
| 22 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 fight | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 Go | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 put | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 put | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 put | nsubj |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | parataxis |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 tail | nmod:poss |
| 30 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obj |
| 31 | between | between | ADP | _ | 33 legs | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 legs | nmod:poss |
| 33 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 put | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ran | cc |
| 35 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 36 ran | advmod |
| 36 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 put | conj |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 ran | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | stupid property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Lionel | picture | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient push=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Lionel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go along in a quote | infinitive | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fight in a quote | infinitive | the Dragon | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | put | past | picture | picture's tail | picture's legs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme between leg=Destination | |||
| 8 | run away | past | picture not said here | away, fairly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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