The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 12
"You're sure he won't hurt you, my only treasure?" said Nigel.
Who acts: You, Nigel, my · What happens: be, not hurt, say, treasure · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Nigel, my), 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 | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hurt | nsubj |
| 6 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hurt | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 hurt | advmod |
| 8 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 hurt | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 treasure | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 treasure | amod |
| 13 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurt | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hurt in a quote | future | Nigel | you | my only treasure obl | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Nigel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | treasure in a quote | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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