The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 86
"So now, when the tide is low again, I will take you away in my boat," he said.
Who acts: tide, Nigel · What happens: be, take away, say · To what, where: you, boat · 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 (tide, Nigel), 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 | _ | 9 low | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 now | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 low | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 low | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 low | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tide | det |
| 7 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 low | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 low | cop |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 said | ccomp |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 low | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 low | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 take | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 boat | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 boat | nmod:poss |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 low | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 low | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the tide | now; again | low property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take away in a quote | future | Nigel | you | my boat | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Nigel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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