The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 10
But Nurse said: "Don't count your chickens, my dear.
Who acts: Nurse · What happens: say, not count · To what, where: chickens · 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 (Nurse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 count | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 count | punct |
| 6 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 count | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 count | advmod |
| 8 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chickens | nmod:poss |
| 10 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 count | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dear | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dear | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 count | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nurse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not count in a quote | infinitive · do-support | your chickens | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme |
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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