The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 57
I'm only a happy old woman, but I know some things still.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, know · To what, where: happy old woman, things
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 woman | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 woman | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 woman | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 woman | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 things | det |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 know | obj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 know | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a happy old woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | some things | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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