The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 19

After all," they said, "soccer is a dangerous game, and perhaps it is wise to discourage it."

Who acts: people, soccer · What happens: say, be, discourage · To what, where: dangerous game, soccer · 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, soccer), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 all	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 said	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 all	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 all	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 game	punct
9	soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 game	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 game	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 game	det
12	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 game	amod
13	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wise	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wise	cc
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 wise	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wise	expl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wise	cop
19	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 game	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 discourage	mark
21	discourage	discourage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wise	csubj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 discourage	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 game	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 game	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	people		after all		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	soccer	a dangerous game			tree rules
3	is	present				perhaps, wise property	tree rules
4	discourage	to-infinitive		soccer			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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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