The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 31
"It can't be anything in the dungeon," said the blacksmith, wiping his face. "
Who acts: noise, anything · What happens: not be, say, wipe · To what, where: anything, dungeon, blacksmith, face · 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 (noise, anything), 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 anything | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 anything | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 anything | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 anything | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 anything | cop |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dungeon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dungeon | det |
| 9 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anything | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 anything | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 anything | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blacksmith | det |
| 14 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wiping | punct |
| 16 | wiping | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 said | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wiping | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 wiping | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wiping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | can | noise | anything | the dungeon | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | anything | the blacksmith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blacksmith=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wipe | gerund | anything not said here | blacksmith's face | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source |
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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