The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 50
He said: "Friends--fellow citizens--I cannot disguise from myself or from you that this purple dragon is a poor penniless exile, a helpless alien in our midst, and, besides, he is a--is no end of a dragon."
Who acts: uncle, purple dragon, -- · What happens: say, not disguise, be · To what, where: Friends, poor penniless exile, --, end · 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 (uncle, purple 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Friends | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Friends | punct |
| 5 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 citizens | punct |
| 7 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 citizens | amod |
| 8 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Friends | appos |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 disguise | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 disguise | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 disguise | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 disguise | advmod |
| 13 | disguise | disguise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 myself | case |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 disguise | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 you | cc |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 myself | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 exile | mark |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 dragon | det |
| 21 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dragon | amod |
| 22 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 exile | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 exile | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 exile | det |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 exile | amod |
| 26 | penniless | penniless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 exile | amod |
| 27 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disguise | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 alien | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 alien | det |
| 30 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 alien | amod |
| 31 | alien | alien | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 exile | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 midst | case |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 midst | nmod:poss |
| 34 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 alien | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 end | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 end | cc |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 and | punct |
| 38 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 43 -- | discourse |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 besides | punct |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 -- | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 -- | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 -- | det |
| 43 | -- | -- | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 end | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 end | cop |
| 45 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 46 end | det |
| 46 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disguise | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 dragon | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 dragon | det |
| 49 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 end | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 disguise | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 disguise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | uncle | Friends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not disguise in a quote | can | uncle | from uncle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this purple dragon | a poor penniless exile and a helpless alien in our midst | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | uncle | a -- | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | a -- | no end | of a dragon | tree rules |
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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