The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 123
"I'm afraid I haven't made my meaning clear," said Edmund patiently. "
Who acts: Edmund, my · What happens: be, not make, say, mean · To what, where: Edmund · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Edmund, my), 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 afraid | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 made | advmod |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 afraid | acl:relcl |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 10 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 15 Edmund | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Edmund | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Edmund | clear property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary meaning=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Edmund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | my | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=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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