The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 174
"Perhaps, my Lord," said the Prime Minister, "we'd better first find out just exactly what he has done."
Who acts: Lord, we · What happens: say, find out, do · 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 (Lord, we), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Perhaps | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Minister | det |
| 10 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 11 Minister | compound |
| 11 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 15 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 find | advmod |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 find | advmod |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 find | compound:prt |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 what | advmod |
| 21 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 22 what | advmod |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 done | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 done | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 find | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my Lord | perhaps property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find out in a quote | would | we | first, well property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect | Lord | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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