The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 98
"I thought we were a Republic," said Lionel. "
Who acts: I, we, Lionel · What happens: think, be, say · To what, where: Republic · 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 (I, we, 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 | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Republic | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Republic | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Republic | det |
| 7 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Republic | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Republic | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | we | a Republic | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Lionel | a Republic not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent republic=Topic |
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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