The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 109
"Well, I haven't much patience at any time," said Elfin, "and now I can assure you that there's very little left.
Who acts: Elfin, little left · What happens: have, say, assure, be · To what, where: much patience, you · 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 (Elfin, little left), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 patience | amod |
| 8 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Elfin | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Elfin | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 assure | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 assure | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 assure | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 assure | aux |
| 22 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 assure | iobj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 's | mark |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 's | expl |
| 26 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 assure | advcl |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 little | advmod |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 left | amod |
| 29 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 's | nsubj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Elfin | much patience | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Elfin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | assure in a quote | can | Elfin | you | now | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | little left | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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