The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 144
"There," said Lionel, "Isn't that lovely?
Who acts: Lionel, that · 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 (Lionel, that), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 said | expl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 There | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 There | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lovely | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lovely | punct |
| 9 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lovely | cop |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 lovely | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 lovely | nsubj |
| 12 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Lionel | there | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | that | lovely property | tree rules |
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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