The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 14

Then the people were very angry indeed, and they said: "We might as well be a Republic.

Who acts: people, We · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Republic · 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 (people, We), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 angry	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Republic	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Republic	punct
14	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 Republic	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 Republic	aux
16	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	20 Republic	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 as	fixed
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 Republic	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Republic	det
20	Republic	Republic	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the people		then	angry, indeed property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	might	We	a Republic			tree rules

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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