The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 132
"Why, you've been seven hours over that sum," she said, "and you haven't done it yet.
Who acts: you, seven hours · What happens: be, say, not do · To what, where: seven hours, sum, answer · 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 (you, seven hours), 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 | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hours | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 hours | nsubj |
| 5 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hours | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 hours | cop |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hours | nummod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | nsubj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 sum | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 sum | det |
| 11 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hours | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 done | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 done | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 done | advmod |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 done | obj |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 done | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | you | seven hours | that sum | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | seven hours | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | present · perfect | you | answer | yet | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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