The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 119
And I will smear myself all over with the best dragon poison, and--"
Who acts: I · What happens: smear · To what, where: myself
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 smear | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 smear | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 smear | aux |
| 4 | smear | smear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 smear | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 over | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 smear | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 poison | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 poison | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 poison | amod |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poison | compound |
| 12 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smear | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 -- | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 -- | cc |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 smear | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 smear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smear | future | I | myself | with the best dragon poison; over property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Destination with poison=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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