The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 172
And when they saw the book they understood, and the Chancellor said: "You naughty little King!
Who acts: Chancellor · What happens: see, understand, say · To what, where: book · 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 understood | nsubj |
| 8 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 book | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Chancellor | det |
| 12 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 King | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 King | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 King | nsubj |
| 17 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 King | amod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 King | amod |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Chancellor | the book | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | Chancellor | the book not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Chancellor | 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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