The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 57
And he said to the skipper, his uncle: "What light is that?"
Who acts: boy, light · What happens: say, be · To what, where: skipper · 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 (boy, light), 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 skipper | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skipper | det |
| 6 | skipper | skipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 uncle | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skipper | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 What | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 What | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 What | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 What | cop |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 What | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 What | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | boy | the skipper and boy's uncle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to skipper=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | light | tree rules |
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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