The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 31

"I would be a stone for a thousand years," said the poor Queen, "if at the end of them I could see my dear again."

Who acts: stone · What happens: be, say, see · To what, where: stone, dear, end · 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 (stone), 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	_	6 stone	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 stone	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stone	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 stone	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thousand	det
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stone	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stone	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 stone	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Queen	amod
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Queen	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 see	mark
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 end	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 end	det
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 end	nmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dear	nmod:poss
29	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 see	obj
30	again	again	ADV	_	27 see	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	would	a stone = stone	a stone	year	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a stone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	a stone = stone	my dear	at the end of things; again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dear=Stimulus

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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