The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 184
"Yes, but five minutes ago you hadn't seen me!"
Who acts: you · What happens: not see · To what, where: Sabrinetta
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 (you), 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 | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 seen | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 seen | cc |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 minutes | nummod |
| 6 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 seen | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 seen | advmod |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | past · perfect | you | Sabrinetta | ago property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/184/