The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 129
I never said a word about courtings or kingdoms.
Who acts: I · What happens: not say · To what, where: word · 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 courtings | case |
| 7 | courtings | courting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 word | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 kingdoms | cc |
| 9 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 courtings | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past | I | a word | about courtings or kingdoms | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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