The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 132
"All right," said Elfin, shrugging his shoulders. "
Who acts: Elfin · What happens: say, shrug · To what, where: shoulders · 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), 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 | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 right | det |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shrugging | punct |
| 9 | shrugging | shrug | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shrugging | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shrugging | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 shrugging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Elfin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shrug | gerund | Elfin not said here | Elfin's shoulders | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient |
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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