The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 15
"My Princess," he said tenderly, "two great powers are on our side: the power of Love and the power of Arithmetic.
Who acts: Nigel, two great powers · What happens: say, be · To what, where: side · 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 (Nigel, two great powers), 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 | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 side | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 side | punct |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 powers | nummod |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 powers | amod |
| 13 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 side | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 side | cop |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 side | nmod:poss |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 power | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 power | det |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Love | case |
| 22 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 power | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 power | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 power | det |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 power | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Arithmetic | case |
| 27 | Arithmetic | Arithmetic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 power | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nigel | tenderly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | two great powers | our side and the power of Love and the power of Arithmetic | 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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