The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 88

"Good-bye, ducky," said Nurse. "

Who acts: Nurse · What happens: say · 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), 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	_	2 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bye	punct
4	bye	bye	INTJ	_	2 Good	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ducky	punct
6	ducky	ducky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Good	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Good	conj
10	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nurse						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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