The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 27
"All the embroidery is unpicked," said the Princess, sighing.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: unpick, say, sigh · To what, where: embroidery · 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 (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 | _ | 6 unpicked | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 embroidery | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 embroidery | det |
| 4 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unpicked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 unpicked | aux:pass |
| 6 | unpicked | unpick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 unpicked | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 unpicked | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sighing | punct |
| 13 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unpick in a quote | present · passive | all embroidery | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sigh | 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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