The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 218

And all the children said: "Yes, of course we will.

Who acts: children · What happens: 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 (children), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 children	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 will	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 will	punct
8	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	13 will	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Yes	punct
10	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	13 will	advmod
11	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 of	fixed
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 will	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	all children						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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