The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 78

"Would you like me to bring Nurse, or what time would you like me to be fetched, and hadn't I better put on my velvet suit with the lace collar?" said Lionel, who had often been out to tea.

Who acts: you, Lionel · What happens: like, bring, fetch, have, put, say · To what, where: Lionel, Nurse, velvet suit · 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 (you, Lionel), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 said	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bring	mark
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
8	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 like	cc
11	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 like	obl:unmarked
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 like	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 like	nsubj
15	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 like	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 fetched	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 fetched	aux:pass
19	fetched	fetch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 like	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	parataxis
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 better	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 better	nsubj
25	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 had	ccomp
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 better	csubj
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 suit	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 suit	nmod:poss
29	velvet	velvet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 suit	amod
30	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 collar	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 collar	det
33	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 collar	compound
34	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
38	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 said	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 tea	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 tea	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 tea	aux
42	often	often	ADV	_	46 tea	advmod
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 tea	cop
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 been	compound:prt
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 tea	case
46	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Lionel	appos
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	would	you	Lionel				tree rules
2	bring not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Nurse				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme
3	like in a quote	would	you	Lionel		time		tree rules
4	fetch not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»
5	have in a quote	past						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	put in a quote	infinitive			my velvet suit		with the lace collar	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on suit=Destination
7	say speech: ask	past	Lionel					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	is	past · perfect	Lionel				to tea; often property	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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