The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 12

But deep down in his wicked purple heart he was saying, "Oh, you nice, fat, pretty little Princess, I should like to eat you instead of these silly acid drops."

Who acts: Rotundia, silly acid · What happens: say, like, eat, drop · To what, where: you · 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 (Rotundia, silly acid), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 down	cc
2	deep	deep	ADV	_	3 down	advmod
3	down	down	ADV	_	11 saying	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 heart	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heart	nmod:poss
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heart	amod
7	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heart	amod
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 down	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saying	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saying	aux
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nice	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 nice	punct
14	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	17 nice	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Oh	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 nice	nsubj
17	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saying	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fat	punct
19	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nice	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Princess	punct
21	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Princess	amod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Princess	amod
23	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nice	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 like	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 like	aux
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 nice	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 like	xcomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 eat	obj
31	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	36 drops	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 instead	fixed
33	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 acid	det
34	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 acid	amod
35	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drops	nsubj
36	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · progressive	Rotundia		down property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	like in a quote	should	Rotundia			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	eat not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Rotundia not said here	you		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
4	drop in a quote	present	this silly acid			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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