The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 108
The Princess said she supposed so, and the dragon came a little nearer.
Who acts: Princess, dragon · What happens: say, suppose, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, dragon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 supposed | nsubj |
| 5 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 supposed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nearer | obl |
| 14 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 came | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | suppose | participle | Princess | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the dragon | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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