The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 78
"Upon my word of honor as a dragon," said the other.
Who acts: word, my · What happens: say, word · To what, where: honor · 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 (word, my), 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 word | punct |
| 2 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 word | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 word | nmod:poss |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 honor | case |
| 6 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | nmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 dragon | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 honor | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my word of honor as a dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | word in a quote | my | honor as a dragon | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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