The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 78
"I'm Elfin, the pig keeper," said the ragged youth. "
Who acts: Elfin · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Elfin, ragged youth · 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 (Elfin), 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 | _ | 4 Elfin | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Elfin | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Elfin | cop |
| 4 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 keeper | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 keeper | det |
| 7 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeper | compound |
| 8 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Elfin | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 keeper | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 keeper | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 13 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 youth | amod |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Elfin | Elfin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Elfin | the ragged youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=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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