The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 105
"I don't want to know anything," said Prince Tiresome.
Who acts: Tiresome · What happens: not want, know, say · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiresome), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Tiresome | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Tiresome | Tiresome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | Tiresome Prince = tiresome | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Tiresome Prince = tiresome not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Tiresome Prince | 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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