The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 106
"Then you're more of a silly even than I thought," said Elfin. "
Who acts: you, Elfin · What happens: be, think, say · 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 (you, Elfin), 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 | _ | 8 silly | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 silly | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 silly | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 silly | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 silly | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 silly | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 silly | det |
| 8 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 thought | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 silly | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 silly | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 silly | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | then | silly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Elfin | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Elfin | 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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