The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 174
"And he promised me half his kingdom and the hand of his cousin the Princess," said Elfin.
Who acts: Prince, Elfin · What happens: promise, say · To what, where: kingdom, Elfin · 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 (Prince, 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 | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 promised | cc |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | iobj |
| 6 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 8 kingdom | det:predet |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hand | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kingdom | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cousin | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hand | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cousin | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | Prince | Prince's kingdom and the hand of Prince's cousin | Elfin | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal kingdom=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Elfin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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