The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 1
"You are a naughty little King," she said, "and nobody will love you."
Who acts: You, naughty little King, nobody · What happens: be, say, love · To what, where: naughty little King, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, naughty little King, nobody), 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 | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 King | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 King | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 5 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 King | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 King | amod |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 love | cc |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 love | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 love | aux |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 love | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a naughty little King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a naughty little King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | love in a quote | future | nobody | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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