The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 96

Tom gave all the buns to the dragon, saying: "Here, try to eat a little.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: give, say, try, eat · To what, where: buns, dragon, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 buns	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 buns	det
5	buns	bun	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 dragon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dragon	det
8	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Here	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Here	punct
13	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 saying	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 try	punct
15	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saying	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 try	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 little	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eat	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	past	Tom	all buns	the dragon		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bun=Theme to dragon=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Tom not said here			here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	try in a quote	infinitive	Tom not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	eat not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	a little			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=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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