The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 62

"I don't know," said the little King, "I seem to see better, and to hear better now that I've cried for a week.

Who acts: little King · What happens: not know, say, seem, see, hear, cry · 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 (little King), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 King	amod
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seem	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 seem	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 seem	nsubj
15	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seem	xcomp
18	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 see	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hear	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hear	mark
22	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 hear	xcomp
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 hear	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 cried	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 cried	nsubj
27	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 cried	aux
28	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 hear	advcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 week	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 week	det
31	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cried	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the little King = king			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the little King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seem in a quote	present	the little King = king			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	see in a quote	to-infinitive	the little King = king not said here		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	hear in a quote	to-infinitive		now	good property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	cry speech: express in a quote	present · perfect	the little King = king	week		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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