The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 145
"There'll be no peace for me after this," said the dragon. "
Who acts: peace · What happens: be, say · To what, where: peace, dragon · 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 (peace), 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 | _ | 6 peace | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 peace | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 peace | det |
| 6 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 peace | nmod |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 peace | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 peace | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 peace | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dragon | det |
| 15 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | infinitive | no peace | after this | for no peace = peace | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | no peace | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=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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