The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 7
"If she does marry," he said, slowly, "her husband will have to be a very clever man--oh, yes, very clever indeed!
Who acts: child, King, husband · What happens: marry, say, have, be · To what, where: clever man · 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, King, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 marry | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 marry | aux |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slowly | punct |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 man | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 man | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 clever | advmod |
| 22 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | advcl |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 oh | punct |
| 25 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 17 have | discourse |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 clever | punct |
| 27 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 30 clever | discourse |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 clever | punct |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 clever | advmod |
| 30 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 have | conj |
| 31 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 30 clever | advmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | child | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | King | slowly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | future | child's husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | child's husband not said here | a clever man | 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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