The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 106
"Well, but do let me do some little thing for you," the Queen went on. "
Who acts: you, witch, Queen · What happens: let, do, go on · To what, where: witch, little thing
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, witch, Queen), 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 | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | aux |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thing | amod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Queen | det |
| 17 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the witch = witch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | the witch = witch not said here | some little thing | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | go on | past | the Queen | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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