The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 186
It's only us," said the children.
Who acts: subscription, us · What happens: be, say · To what, where: us, children · 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 (subscription, us), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 us | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 us | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 us | advmod |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 us | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 us | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | subscription | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | us | the children | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent child=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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