The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 82
"We always fasten a horse up," said John, "and he's the 'noble animal.'"
Who acts: We, John · What happens: fasten up, say, be · To what, where: horse, noble animal · 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 (We, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fasten | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fasten | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 fasten | advmod |
| 4 | fasten | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fasten | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 fasten | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fasten | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fasten | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 John | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 John | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 animal | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 animal | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 animal | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 animal | det |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 animal | punct |
| 19 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 animal | amod |
| 20 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 animal | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 animal | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 animal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten up in a quote | present | We | a horse | always property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | John | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | John | the noble animal | 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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