The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 75
"I don't like the job, sir," said John, "and that's the truth.
Who acts: John, that · What happens: not like, say, be · To what, where: job, truth · 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, that), 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 | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 job | det |
| 7 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sir | punct |
| 9 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 job | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 John | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 John | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 truth | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 truth | nsubj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 truth | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 truth | det |
| 20 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 John | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | John and the truth = john | the job and sir | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot job=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | John and the truth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | the truth | 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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