The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 120
Let the poor exiled stranger dragon have his birthday present."
Who acts: you, poor exiled stranger dragon · What happens: let, exile, have · To what, where: birthday present
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, poor exiled stranger dragon), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dragon | amod |
| 4 | exiled | exile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dragon | amod |
| 5 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dragon | compound |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 present | nmod:poss |
| 9 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 present | compound |
| 10 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | exile | participle | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | the poor exiled stranger dragon | meantime's birthday present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=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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