The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 9

And he said to his Nurse: "People will love me now I've made such a lot of pretty new laws for them."

Who acts: Lionel, People · What happens: say, love, make · To what, where: Nurse, Lionel, lot · 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 (Lionel, People), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Nurse	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Nurse	nmod:poss
6	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
9	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 love	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 love	aux
11	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 love	obj
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 love	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 made	nsubj
15	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 made	aux
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 love	ccomp
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 lot	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lot	det
19	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 laws	case
21	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	22 new	advmod
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 laws	amod
23	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lot	nmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laws	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Lionel		Lionel's Nurse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to nurse=Recipient clause=Topic
2	love in a quote	future	People	Lionel		now	tree rules
3	make in a quote	present · perfect	Lionel	such lot of new laws for laws			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Product

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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