The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 71

And then, quite suddenly, Nurse came in and said, "Master Lionel, dear, they've come to fetch you to go and be King."

Who acts: Nurse, voices · What happens: come in, say, come, fetch, go, be · To what, where: you, King · 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 (Nurse, voices), 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	_	8 came	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 came	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 then	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 suddenly	advmod
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 suddenly	punct
7	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Lionel	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Lionel	punct
14	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Lionel	compound
15	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dear	punct
17	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Lionel	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
20	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 came	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 fetch	mark
23	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	xcomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 fetch	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fetch	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 King	cc
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 King	cop
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 go	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	Nurse		then	suddenly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Nurse not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	voices = voice				tree rules
4	fetch in a quote	to-infinitive	voices = voice not said here	you			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	go in a quote	to-infinitive	voices = voice not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a in a quote	infinitive	voices = voice not said here	King			tree rules

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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