The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 147

"Well!" said the Prime Minister, as soon as he could speak for the lump of wonder that had got into his throat and tried to choke him, "that's magic, that is."

Who acts: Prime Minister, Lionel, lump, that · What happens: say, speak, get, try, choke, be · To what, where: throat, Lionel · 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, Lionel, lump, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Minister	det
7	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	8 Minister	compound
8	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 soon	advmod
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 speak	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 speak	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 speak	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 speak	aux
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 lump	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lump	det
18	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 wonder	case
20	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lump	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 got	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 got	aux
23	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 lump	acl:relcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 throat	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 throat	nmod:poss
26	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 got	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tried	cc
28	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 choke	mark
30	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tried	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 choke	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 magic	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 magic	punct
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 magic	nsubj
35	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 magic	cop
36	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 choke	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 is	punct
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 is	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 magic	cop
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Prime Minister				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	could	Lionel			for the lump of wonder; soon property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	past · perfect	the lump of wonder		Lionel's throat		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into throat=Destination
4	try	past	the Prime Minister not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	choke not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prime Minister not said here	Lionel			tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	that			magic 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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