The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 50
So John said again, very distinctly: "_Here_--_is_--_a_--_nice_--_end_--_for_--_a_--_respectable_--_blacksmith.
Who acts: John · What happens: say · 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 (John), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 distinctly | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 distinctly | advmod |
| 7 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Here | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Here | punct |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Here | punct |
| 11 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Here | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | parataxis |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 _ | cop |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 _ | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 _ | punct |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 _ | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 _ | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 _ | conj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 nice | punct |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 nice | punct |
| 23 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 _ | parataxis |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 nice | punct |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 end | punct |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 end | punct |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 _ | conj |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 _ | punct |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 _ | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 _ | case |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 _ | punct |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 _ | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 _ | det |
| 36 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | parataxis |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 respectable | punct |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 respectable | punct |
| 39 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 _ | amod |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 respectable | punct |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 blacksmith | punct |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 blacksmith | punct |
| 43 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 _ | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | John | again | distinctly 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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