The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 133

"Oh, don't talk to me!" he said, splashing angrily in the flames. "

Who acts: do · What happens: not talk, say, splash · To what, where: do, flames · 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 (do), 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 talk	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 talk	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 talk	advmod
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 talk	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 splashing	punct
14	splashing	splash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
15	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	14 splashing	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 flames	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flames	det
18	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 splashing	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not talk in a quote	infinitive · do-support		do			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
2	say speech: express	past	do				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	splash	gerund	do not said here		the flames	angrily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flame=Location

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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