The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 117
Now, drink up your medicine, there's a dear, and run along home."
Who acts: you, dear, your · What happens: drink up, be, run, medicine · To what, where: medicine, home
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, dear, your), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drink | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 drink | compound:prt |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 6 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drink | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 's | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 's | expl |
| 9 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drink | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dear | det |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 's | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 run | cc |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 drink | parataxis |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 run | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink up | imperative | you not said here | your medicine | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient | |||
| 2 | be | present | a dear | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | infinitive | home | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along home=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | medicine | your | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=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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