The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 77
"You will be crowned this afternoon," said the grave gentleman who was not quite so grave-looking as the other.
Who acts: grave gentleman · What happens: crown, say, not look · To what, where: You · 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 (grave gentleman), 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 crowned | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 crowned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 crowned | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 crowned | aux:pass |
| 5 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 afternoon | det |
| 7 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crowned | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crowned | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 crowned | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gentleman | det |
| 12 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gentleman | amod |
| 13 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 looking | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 looking | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 looking | advmod |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 looking | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 looking | advmod |
| 19 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 looking | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 grave | punct |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 gentleman | acl:relcl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 other | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 looking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown in a quote | future · passive | You | afternoon | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the grave gentleman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not look | past · progressive | the grave gentleman | as the other | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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