The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 110
Just to see fair," said Tom.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: see, say · 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 (Tom), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 see | mark |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fair | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fair | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | ccomp |
| 8 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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