The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 31
The Chancellor answered: "The Manticora, of course."
Who acts: Chancellor · What happens: answer
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 (Chancellor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Chancellor | det |
| 2 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Manticora | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Manticora | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Manticora | det |
| 7 | Manticora | Manticora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 course | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 course | case |
| 10 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Manticora | appos |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Manticora | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Manticora | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Chancellor | 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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