The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 232
"This is bread and milk," said Johnnie; "it's our breakfast--all of it."
Who acts: bread · What happens: be, say · To what, where: bread, breakfast · 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 (bread), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 bread | det |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bread | cop |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 milk | cc |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bread | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bread | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bread | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Johnnie | Johnnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 breakfast | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 breakfast | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 breakfast | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 breakfast | cop |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 16 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 all | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 breakfast | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 all | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this bread and milk | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | this bread and milk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | bread | our breakfast | 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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