The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 49

I say, wouldn't it be awful if St. George woke up when there was a dragon near, the size that eats champions?"

Who acts: I, story, George, dragon, size · What happens: say, not be, wake up, be, eat · To what, where: size, champions · Speech: someone speaks here

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, story, George, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 awful	punct
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 awful	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 awful	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 awful	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 awful	cop
8	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 woke	mark
10	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 George	nmod:desc
11	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 woke	nsubj
12	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 awful	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 woke	compound:prt
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 was	advmod
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 woke	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dragon	det
18	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
19	near	near	ADV	_	16 was	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 size	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 size	det
22	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 woke	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 eats	nsubj
24	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 size	acl:relcl
25	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 eats	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	would	story			awful property	tree rules
3	wake up a condition, not said to happen	past	George St.	the size			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	be	past	a dragon		there	near property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	present	the size	champions			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent champion=Patient

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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