The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 141
"I must look at this one," Lionel said, for on the back in big letters he read: _The Book of Beasts_.
Who acts: Lionel · What happens: look, say, read · To what, where: big letters · 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 (Lionel), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 back | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 back | det |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 letters | case |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 letters | amod |
| 19 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 back | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 read | nsubj |
| 21 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 letters | acl:relcl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Book | punct |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Book | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Book | det |
| 25 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 look | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Beasts | case |
| 27 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Book | nmod |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Book | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | must | Lionel | at this one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Lionel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | read | past | Lionel | big letters not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=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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