The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 142
The Chancellor said, "Don't be a silly little King."
Who acts: Chancellor, silly little King · What happens: say, not be · 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 (Chancellor, silly little King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Chancellor | det |
| 2 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
| 6 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 be | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 be | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 10 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 King | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 King | amod |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 be | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Chancellor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not be in a quote | infinitive · do-support | a silly little King | vn exist-47.1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/142/