The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 38

"I quite understand," said his wife, who had brought the coal home in her apron that very afternoon, and knew that it was all coal dust.

Who acts: wife, that, coal · What happens: understand, say, bring, afternoon, know, be · To what, where: wife, apron, coal dust · 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 (wife, that, coal), 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	_	4 understand	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 understand	nsubj
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 brought	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	aux
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wife	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coal	det
15	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obj
16	home	home	ADV	_	13 brought	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 apron	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 apron	nmod:poss
19	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 afternoon	nsubj
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 afternoon	advmod
22	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 apron	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knew	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knew	cc
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 dust	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dust	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dust	cop
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 dust	det
30	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dust	compound
31	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knew	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand in a quote	present	blacksmith's wife = wife				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	blacksmith's wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring	past · perfect · passive		blacksmith's wife	most's apron and afternoon	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination coal=Theme
4	afternoon		that				tree rules
5	know	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	coal	all coal dust			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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