The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 90
"Can I get you anything?" asked Tom, politely.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, ask · To what, where: anything, Tom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 politely | punct |
| 12 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 9 asked | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | can | I | anything | Tom | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary anything=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Tom | politely property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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