The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 96

"Well, yes, sir, rather," said the blacksmith.

Who acts: blacksmith · 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 (blacksmith), 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	_	6 sir	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 sir	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 sir	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sir	punct
8	rather	rather	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rather	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 rather	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 blacksmith	det
13	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the blacksmith						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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