The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 111
"We shan't be very nice when the dragon does eat us, that's one comfort," said George. "
Who acts: We, dragon, that, George · What happens: not be, eat, be, say · To what, where: us, one comfort · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, dragon, that, George), 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 | _ | 7 nice | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 nice | nsubj |
| 3 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 nice | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 nice | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nice | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 nice | advmod |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 said | ccomp |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | nsubj |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 eat | aux |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nice | xcomp |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 comfort | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 comfort | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 comfort | cop |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 comfort | nummod |
| 18 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nice | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 nice | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 George | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 George | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | We | nice property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | present · do-support | the dragon | us | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | one comfort | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | George | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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