The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 123
"If I might venture to advise Your Majesty," said the Prime Minister, "I should not read these books.
Who acts: Prime Minister · What happens: venture, advise, say, not read · To what, where: Majesty, books · 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 (Prime Minister), 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 | _ | 5 venture | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 venture | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 venture | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 venture | aux |
| 5 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 advise | mark |
| 7 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 venture | xcomp |
| 8 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 advise | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 venture | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 venture | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Minister | det |
| 14 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 15 Minister | compound |
| 15 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 read | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 read | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 read | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 read | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 read | advmod |
| 21 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 books | det |
| 23 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 read | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | might | the Prime Minister = minister | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | advise speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the Prime Minister = minister not said here | Your Majesty | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Prime Minister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not read in a quote | should | the Prime Minister = minister | this books | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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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