The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 18
And he said: "Here you shall stay, my dear, respectful daughter, till the clever man comes to marry you.
Who acts: plan, you, clever man · What happens: say, stay, come, marry · To what, where: respectful daughter, you · 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 (plan, you, clever man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 stay | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Here | punct |
| 6 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stay | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 stay | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | aux |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dear | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dear | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stay | vocative |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 14 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daughter | amod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 comes | punct |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 comes | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 comes | nsubj |
| 21 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 marry | mark |
| 23 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 comes | xcomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 marry | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | plan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | shall | you | respectful daughter | here | my dear vocative | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | the clever man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | the clever man not said here | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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