The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 25
"It's like a green silk mantle worked with flowers," said the Princess, smiling.
Who acts: red, Princess · What happens: be, work, say, smile · To what, where: green silk mantle · 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 (red, Princess), 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 | _ | 8 mantle | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mantle | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mantle | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 mantle | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mantle | det |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mantle | amod |
| 7 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mantle | compound |
| 8 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 9 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mantle | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 flowers | case |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 worked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mantle | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mantle | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 smiling | punct |
| 18 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | red | like a green silk mantle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work in a quote | participle | a green silk mantle not said here | with flowers | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | smile | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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