The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 49
"Do you mind saying that again?" said he, quite politely.
Who acts: you, Dragon · What happens: mind, say · To what, where: that · 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 (you, Dragon), 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 mind | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mind | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mind | nsubj |
| 4 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 mind | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 saying | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 saying | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 politely | punct |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 politely | advmod |
| 14 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | you not said here | that | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Dragon | politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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