The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 80

There was a brass plate on the door that said MRS. D. KNOCK AND RING, and a white label that said CALL ME AT THREE.

Who acts: brass plate, door, white label · What happens: be, say, call · To what, where: white label, door, ME · 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 (brass plate, door, white label), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plate	det
4	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plate	compound
5	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 door	acl:relcl
11	MRS.	MRS.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 D.	compound
12	D.	D.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 KNOCK	compound
13	KNOCK	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	AND	and	CCONJ	_	15 RING	cc
15	RING	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 KNOCK	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 label	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 label	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 label	det
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 label	amod
20	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 label	acl:relcl
23	CALL	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
24	ME	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 CALL	obj
25	AT	at	ADP	_	26 THREE	case
26	THREE	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 CALL	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a brass plate	a white label	the door; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the door				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	a white label				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	call	infinitive		ME		at THREE	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent i=Theme at three=Stimulus

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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