The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 4

And to her husband she said, "My dear, why do you go on worrying about it?

Who acts: child, husband · What happens: say, go, worry · To what, where: husband · 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 (child, husband), 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	_	6 said	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 husband	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 husband	nmod:poss
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dear	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 dear	punct
9	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dear	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 go	advmod
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dear	conj
16	on	on	SCONJ	_	17 worrying	mark
17	worrying	worry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 go	advcl
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 worrying	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	child	child's husband		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present · do-support	child's husband = husband			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	worry in a quote	gerund	child's husband = husband not said here		about word	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=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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