The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 61
Crying," said she, "never did anyone any good yet."
Who acts: way · What happens: cry, say, not do · To what, where: anyone · 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 (way), 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 | Crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Crying | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Crying | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 she | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 did | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 did | obj |
| 11 | any | any | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 anyone | amod |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 did | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not do | past | way | anyone | yet | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Eventuality |
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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