The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 113
"Tumble for your life!" cried George, and he fell down at once, because it is the only way to stop.
Who acts: George, cry, life · What happens: tumble, cry, fall down, be, stop · To what, where: only way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George, cry, life), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tumble | punct |
| 2 | Tumble | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tumble | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tumble | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tumble | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 fell | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 way | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 way | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 way | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 way | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 22 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 way | amod |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 stop | mark |
| 25 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 way | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tumble in a quote | infinitive | for your life | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | George | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fall down | past | cry | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | life | the only way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stop | to-infinitive | cry not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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