The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 133
"I'm very sorry, sir," said the blacksmith, "but all the shops are shut.
Who acts: blacksmith, shops · What happens: be, 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 (blacksmith, shops), 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 | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sir | punct |
| 7 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorry | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 blacksmith | det |
| 12 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 shut | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 shops | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shops | det |
| 18 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shut | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 shut | cop |
| 20 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sorry | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the blacksmith = blacksmith | sir vocative; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the blacksmith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | all shops | shut 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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