The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 175

Then Lionel, in floods of tears, said: "It's a Red Dragon, and it's gone flying away to the hills, and I am so sorry, and, oh, do forgive me!"

Who acts: Lionel, tear, tears · What happens: say, be, fly away, forgive, flood · To what, where: Red Dragon, 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 (Lionel, tear, tears), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
2	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 floods	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 floods	case
5	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Lionel	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 tears	case
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 floods	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lionel	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Dragon	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Dragon	punct
12	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Dragon	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Dragon	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Dragon	det
15	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Dragon	flat
16	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gone	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	cop
21	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
22	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 gone	advcl
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 flying	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 hills	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hills	det
26	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flying	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sorry	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sorry	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 sorry	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 sorry	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 sorry	advmod
32	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gone	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 forgive	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 forgive	cc
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 and	punct
36	oh	oh	INTJ	_	39 forgive	discourse
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 oh	punct
38	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 forgive	aux
39	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 forgive	obj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 forgive	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 forgive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Lionel		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	tear	a Red Dragon			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	tear			gone property	tree rules
4	fly away in a quote	gerund	tear not said here			to the hills result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hill=Result
5	is in a quote	present	Lionel			sorry property	tree rules
6	forgive in a quote	infinitive · do-support		Lionel			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	flood		tears				nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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