The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 15

It only came out for a minute, but she saw it quite plainly, and she said to herself: "Dear me, what a curious, shiny, bright-looking creature!

Who acts: hedge, Princess · What happens: come out, see, say, look, creature · To what, where: hedge, Princess · 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 (hedge, Princess), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 minute	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 minute	det
7	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 plainly	advmod
14	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	11 saw	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 herself	case
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 said	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Dear	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Dear	punct
23	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	parataxis
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Dear	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 creature	punct
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 creature	nsubj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 creature	det
28	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 looking	compound
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shiny	punct
30	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 curious	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 curious	punct
32	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 looking	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 bright	punct
34	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 creature	amod
35	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Dear	conj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	hedge			minute	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	see	past	Princess	hedge			plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	say speech: express	past	Princess		Princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	look in a quote	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	creature in a quote							tree rules

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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