The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 60
For I warn you that the purple dragon will respect nothing, however sacred."
Who acts: I, purple dragon · What happens: warn, respect · To what, where: you, nothing
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 (I, 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 warn | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 warn | nsubj |
| 3 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sacred | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 warn | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 respect | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 7 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dragon | amod |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 respect | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 respect | aux |
| 10 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 warn | advcl |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 respect | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 warn | punct |
| 13 | however | however | ADV | _ | 14 sacred | advmod |
| 14 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sacred | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sacred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | present | I | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | respect | future | the purple dragon | nothing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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