The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 191

"Oh, is that all?" said the Princess. "

Who acts: all · What happens: say · To what, where: Princess · 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 (all), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 all	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 all	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 all	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 said	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 all	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 all	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	all	the Princess					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=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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