The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 83
Why, Mary Ann, my precious, my Princess--what do you think I should be doing while the dragon was getting his birthday present?
Who acts: you, I, dragon · What happens: think, do, get · To what, where: Princess, birthday present · 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 (you, I, 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 precious | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mary | punct |
| 3 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 precious | nsubj |
| 4 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mary | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 precious | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 precious | nmod:poss |
| 7 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Princess | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 precious | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 think | obj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 doing | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 doing | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 doing | aux |
| 19 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 think | ccomp |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 getting | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dragon | det |
| 22 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 getting | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 getting | aux |
| 24 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 doing | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 present | nmod:poss |
| 26 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 present | compound |
| 27 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 getting | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 precious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | my Princess | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | should · progressive | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past · progressive | the dragon | Mary's birthday present | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=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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