The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 152
The drakling stopped snoring and said sleepily: "It ain't time yet."
Who acts: drakling · What happens: stop, snore, say · 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 (drakling), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 drakling | det |
| 2 | drakling | drakling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | snoring | snore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stopped | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | conj |
| 7 | sleepily | sleepily | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 ai | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ai | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ai | nsubj |
| 11 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | parataxis |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 time | advmod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ai | obl |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 ai | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ai | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the drakling | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | snore | gerund | the drakling not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the drakling not said here | sleepily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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