The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 46
"Deary, deary me," said poor John, trembling more than ever in the claw of the dragon. "
Who acts: Deary · What happens: say, tremble · To what, where: more · 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 (Deary), 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 | _ | 2 Deary | punct |
| 2 | Deary | deary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 deary | punct |
| 4 | deary | deary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Deary | conj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 deary | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Deary | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Deary | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 John | amod |
| 10 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trembling | punct |
| 12 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 trembling | obj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 claw | case |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 claw | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 claw | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 claw | det |
| 18 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 more | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 dragon | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dragon | det |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 claw | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Deary and deary me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | Deary and deary me not said here | more | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme |
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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