The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 172
"I beg your pardon," said the drakling humbly, "but I am really _very_ hungry."
Who acts: drakling, your · What happens: beg, say, be, pardon · To what, where: pardon · 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, your), 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 | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 beg | nsubj |
| 3 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beg | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 drakling | det |
| 10 | drakling | drakling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 hungry | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 hungry | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 hungry | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hungry | cop |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 hungry | advmod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 hungry | punct |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 hungry | advmod |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 hungry | punct |
| 21 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 hungry | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | the drakling = drakling | your pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the drakling | humbly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the drakling = drakling | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pardon in a quote | your | nom pardon «act 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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