The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 158
"Well, I'm sorry if I've vexed you," said Lionel. "
Who acts: Lionel · What happens: be, vex, say · To what, where: you · 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 | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 sorry | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sorry | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorry | cop |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 vexed | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 vexed | nsubj |
| 9 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 vexed | aux |
| 10 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 vexed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vexed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 vexed | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorry | parataxis |
| 15 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Lionel | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vex a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | Lionel | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Lionel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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