The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 112
What do you mean, sir," he cried, "by intruding on a State function with your common rabbits and things?
Who acts: you, uncle · What happens: mean, cry, intrude · To what, where: sir, State function · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, uncle), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sir | punct |
| 6 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mean | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sir | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 intruding | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 intruding | punct |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 intruding | mark |
| 14 | intruding | intrude | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 function | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 function | det |
| 17 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 function | compound |
| 18 | function | function | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 intruding | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 rabbits | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 rabbits | nmod:poss |
| 21 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rabbits | amod |
| 22 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 intruding | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 things | cc |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rabbits | conj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | you | sir | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | uncle | sir not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sir=Topic | ||||
| 3 | intrude | gerund | uncle not said here | a State function | with your common rabbits and things | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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