The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 97
"What time does he sleep today?" asked Nigel.
Who acts: Nigel · What happens: sleep, ask · To what, where: Nigel · 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 (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 | _ | 6 sleep | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sleep | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sleep | nsubj |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 sleep | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sleep | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep in a quote | present · do-support | Nigel | time; today | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Nigel | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent nigel=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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