The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 56
"The junior secretary cried out, 'Look at the bottle!'"
Who acts: junior secretary · What happens: cry out, look
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 (junior secretary), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 secretary | det |
| 3 | junior | junior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 secretary | amod |
| 4 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cried | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Look | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Look | punct |
| 9 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 bottle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bottle | det |
| 12 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Look | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 Look | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Look | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express in a quote | past | the junior secretary | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | the junior secretary not said here | at the bottle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bottle=Theme |
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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