The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 108
"It might be as well," the Prince admitted.
Who acts: Few, Prince · What happens: be, admit · 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 (Few, Prince), 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 well | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 well | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 well | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 well | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 admitted | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 admitted | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 admitted | nsubj |
| 11 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 admitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | might | Few | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | past | the Prince | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how 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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