The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 25
I was always for a fair fight--one man one dragon, was my motto."
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: motto
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fight | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 fight | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fight | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fight | det |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fight | amod |
| 7 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 motto | parataxis |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 man | nummod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fight | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 dragon | nummod |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fight | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 motto | cop |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 motto | nmod:poss |
| 16 | motto | motto | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 motto | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 motto | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | for a fair fight and one man one dragon; always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | my motto | 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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