The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 150
I can't keep it quiet," said the dragon; and then suddenly he saw a woman sitting on the steps. "
Who acts: I, baby, Dragon, woman · What happens: not keep, say, see, sit · To what, where: shop, dragon, woman · 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 (I, baby, Dragon, woman), 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 | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 keep | advmod |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | obj |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 saw | advmod |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 17 saw | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 woman | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 steps | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 steps | det |
| 23 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sitting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | can | I | shop | quiet property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the baby = baby not said here | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | Dragon | a woman | then | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | sit in a quote | gerund | a woman not said here | on the steps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location |
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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