The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 94
"Hush," whispered the Hippogriff modestly. "
Who acts: Hippogriff · What happens: whisper
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 (Hippogriff), 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 whispered | punct |
| 2 | Hush | hush | INTJ | _ | 5 whispered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hush | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 whispered | punct |
| 5 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hippogriff | det |
| 7 | Hippogriff | Hippogriff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 whispered | obj |
| 8 | modestly | modestly | ADV | _ | 5 whispered | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 whispered | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | the Hippogriff | modestly property | 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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