The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 235
"It was _always_ on the hillside," said the master.
Who acts: account, hillside · What happens: be, say · To what, where: hillside, master · 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 (account, hillside), 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 | _ | 9 hillside | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hillside | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hillside | cop |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 hillside | punct |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 hillside | advmod |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 hillside | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hillside | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hillside | det |
| 9 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hillside | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hillside | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 master | det |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | account | the hillside | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the hillside | the master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=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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