The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 19
"I wish it had not been in such a hurry to get back into the wood," said Sabrinetta. "
Who acts: Sabrinetta, thing · What happens: wish, have, not be, get back, say · To what, where: hurry, wood · 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, thing), 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 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 hurry | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 hurry | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hurry | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 hurry | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hurry | det |
| 11 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hurry | acl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | Sabrinetta | Sabrinetta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | Sabrinetta | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | thing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | participle | such hurry | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get back in a quote | to-infinitive | thing not said here | the wood | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Sabrinetta | 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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