The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 94
"Why, yes," said the Princess, "but only once in twenty-four hours, and then the dragon is turned to stone.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: say, turn · To what, where: dragon, stone · 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 (Princess), 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 | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 once | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 once | advmod |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hours | case |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 four | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 twenty | punct |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hours | nummod |
| 19 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 once | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 turned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turned | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 turned | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dragon | det |
| 24 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 turned | aux:pass |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 stone | case |
| 28 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | present · passive | the dragon | stone | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory |
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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