The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 189
"The mistake," said Elfin, "was in not having a dragonproof bottle.
Who acts: mistake, Elfin · What happens: say, not have · To what, where: dragonproof bottle · 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 (mistake, 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 mistake | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mistake | det |
| 3 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mistake | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mistake | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 having | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Elfin | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Elfin | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 having | aux |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 having | mark |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 having | advmod |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bottle | det |
| 15 | dragonproof | dragonproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bottle | amod |
| 16 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 having | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mistake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not have in a quote | past · progressive | Elfin | a dragonproof bottle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=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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