The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 35
"Now," said the witch, when they had all cried as much as was good for them, "I can do one or two other little things for you.
Who acts: witch, I · What happens: say, cry, be, do · To what, where: birth, one other little things · 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 (witch, I), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 cried | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | aux |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 cried | advmod |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cried | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 good | mark |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 good | cop |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 much | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 good | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | conj |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 things | nummod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 two | cc |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 one | conj |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 things | amod |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 things | amod |
| 31 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 do | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 do | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past · perfect · passive | birth | much obl; all property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | for birth; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | can | I | one other little things | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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