The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 111
"Half my kingdom," said the Prince, "and my cousin's hand in marriage."
Who acts: kingdom · What happens: 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 (kingdom), 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 | _ | 4 kingdom | punct |
| 2 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 kingdom | det:predet |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kingdom | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kingdom | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hand | cc |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 cousin | case |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 marriage | case |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hand | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hand | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my kingdom | 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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