The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 100

"Sire, your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's death happened when my grandfather was a little boy," said the Prime Minister, "and since then your loyal people have been saving up to buy you a crown--so much a week, you know, according to people's means--sixpence a week from those who have first-rate pocket money, down to a halfpenny a week from those who haven't so much.

Who acts: Sire, grandfather, loyal people, you, according, first rate · What happens: happen, be, say, save up, buy, know · To what, where: little boy, crown, you, people, sixpence, those · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, grandfather, loyal people, you), 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 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 happened	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 grandfather	nmod:poss
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grandfather	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 great	punct
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grandfather	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 great	punct
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grandfather	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 great	punct
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grandfather	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 great	punct
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grandfather	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 great	punct
15	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 death	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 grandfather	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 happened	nsubj
18	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 boy	mark
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 grandfather	nmod:poss
21	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 boy	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 boy	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 boy	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boy	amod
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 boy	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 boy	punct
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 happened	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Minister	det
30	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	31 Minister	compound
31	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 said	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Minister	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 saving	cc
35	since	since	ADP	_	36 then	case
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 saving	obl
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 people	nmod:poss
38	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 people	amod
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 saving	nsubj
40	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 saving	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 saving	aux
42	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 said	advcl
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 saving	compound:prt
44	to	to	PART	_	45 buy	mark
45	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 saving	advcl
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 buy	iobj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 crown	det
48	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 buy	obj
49	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 week	punct
50	so	so	ADV	_	51 much	advmod
51	much	much	ADV	_	53 week	advmod
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 week	det
53	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 saving	obl:unmarked
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 know	punct
55	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 know	nsubj
56	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 saving	parataxis
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 means	punct
58	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	62 means	csubj
59	to	to	ADP	_	58 according	fixed
60	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 according	obj
61	's	's	PART	_	60 people	case
62	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 saving	parataxis
63	--	--	PUNCT	_	64 sixpence	punct
64	sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 means	obj
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 week	det
66	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 sixpence	nmod:unmarked
67	from	from	ADP	_	68 those	case
68	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	64 sixpence	nmod
69	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	70 have	nsubj
70	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	68 those	acl:relcl
71	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	73 rate	amod
72	-	-	PUNCT	_	71 first	punct
73	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 money	nsubj
74	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 money	compound
75	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 have	ccomp
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 down	punct
77	down	down	ADV	_	64 sixpence	advmod
78	to	to	ADP	_	80 halfpenny	case
79	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	80 halfpenny	det
80	halfpenny	halfpenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 down	obl
81	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	82 week	det
82	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	84 those	obl:unmarked
83	from	from	ADP	_	84 those	case
84	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	64 sixpence	nmod
85	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	86 have	nsubj
86	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	84 those	acl:relcl
87	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	86 have	advmod
88	so	so	ADV	_	89 much	advmod
89	much	much	ADV	_	86 have	advmod
90	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen in a quote	past	Sire						tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	my grandfather	a little boy					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	save up in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	your loyal people				week		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	buy in a quote	to-infinitive	your loyal people not said here	a crown	you				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary crown=Theme
6	know in a quote	present	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	accord in a quote	gerund		people					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent people=Theme
8	mean in a quote	present	according	sixpence a week		those		from those	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixpence=Topic
9	have in a quote	present							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	money in a quote		first rate						tree rules
11	not have in a quote	present							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
12	die in a quote		your great great great great great grandfather						nom death «event intransitive»: 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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