The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 84
"WHATEVER--DO--YOU--WANT--HIM--TO--DO--THAT--FOR?" yelled George.
Who acts: YOU, George · What happens: do, yell · To what, where: DO · 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 (YOU, 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 | _ | 4 DO | punct |
| 2 | WHATEVER | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 DO | obj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 DO | punct |
| 4 | DO | DO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 DO | obl |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 YOU | punct |
| 6 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 DO | nsubj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 WANT | punct |
| 8 | WANT | WANT | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 YOU | conj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 HIM | punct |
| 10 | HIM | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 YOU | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 YOU | punct |
| 12 | TO | to | ADP | _ | 6 YOU | fixed |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 YOU | punct |
| 14 | DO | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 yelled | ccomp |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 FOR | punct |
| 16 | THAT | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 FOR | nsubj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 FOR | punct |
| 18 | FOR | FOR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 DO | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 DO | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 DO | punct |
| 21 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 yelled | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 yelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | YOU | DO | FOR obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | yell speech: express | past | George | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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