The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 56
Then the witch said: "I'm not a witch anymore.
Who acts: witch · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: witch · 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 (witch), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 witch | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 witch | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 witch | nsubj |
| 8 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 witch | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 witch | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | anymore | anymore | ADV | _ | 11 witch | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | the witch = witch | a witch | anymore property | 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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