The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 3
But the Queen said, "My dear child, don't interfere," quite crossly, for she was frightened.
Who acts: Queen, dear child · What happens: say, not interfere, frighten · To what, where: child · 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 (Queen, dear child), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 interfere | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 interfere | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 child | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | amod |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 interfere | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 interfere | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 interfere | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 interfere | advmod |
| 13 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crossly | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 crossly | punct |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 crossly | advmod |
| 17 | crossly | crossly | ADV | _ | 13 interfere | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 frightened | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 frightened | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 frightened | aux:pass |
| 22 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 interfere | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not interfere in a quote | infinitive · do-support | My dear child | crossly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | frighten | past · passive | child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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