The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 131
"Hurry up, can't you?" he said. "
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: hurry up, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragon), 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 | _ | 2 Hurry | punct |
| 2 | Hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Hurry | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ca | punct |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hurry | conj |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ca | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ca | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hurry | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hurry | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry up in a quote | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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