The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 175

"Oh, dear, what a shame!" said Sabrinetta, trying to get out of his arms. "

Who acts: Sabrinetta · What happens: say, try, get out · To what, where: arms · 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 (Sabrinetta), 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 dear	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dear	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 dear	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shame	det
8	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Sabrinetta	Sabrinetta	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trying	punct
14	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 get	mark
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 trying	xcomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 arms	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 arms	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 get	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sabrinetta		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	try	gerund	Sabrinetta not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sabrinetta not said here	shame's arms	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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