The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 11
"I'm not going to punish her for that," said he. "
Who acts: King · What happens: not go, punish, say · To what, where: Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 punish | mark |
| 7 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 punish | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 punish | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | King | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | punish in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | Queen | for that | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Patient for that=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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