The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 243
"We have only seventy-five pigs," said the Princess, "and with me that's seventy-six!"
Who acts: We, Princess, that · What happens: have, say, be · To what, where: five pigs, seventy six · 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 (We, Princess, that), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 five | advmod |
| 5 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 five | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 seventy | punct |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pigs | nummod |
| 8 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 me | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 six | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 six | cop |
| 21 | seventy | seventy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 six | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 six | punct |
| 23 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 me | parataxis |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 me | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | We | five pigs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | seventy six | 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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