The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 113
Go away, naughty little boy, and play with them somewhere else."
Who acts: you · What happens: go away, play
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), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 4 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boy | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boy | amod |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 play | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 play | cc |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 play | obl |
| 12 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 play | advmod |
| 13 | else | else | ADV | _ | 12 somewhere | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | infinitive | you not said here | with things = thing; somewhere property | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=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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