The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 22
He said nothing, but he exchanged a meaningful glance with the dragon, and everyone went home to tea.
Who acts: uncle, everyone · What happens: say, exchange, go · To what, where: nothing, meaningful glance, tea · 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 (uncle, everyone), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 said | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 exchanged | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 exchanged | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 exchanged | nsubj |
| 7 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 glance | det |
| 9 | meaningful | meaningful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 glance | amod |
| 10 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exchanged | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 dragon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exchanged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 tea | case |
| 20 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | uncle | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | exchange | past | uncle | a meaningful glance | with the dragon | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent glance=Theme with dragon=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | go | past | everyone | tea | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tea=Initial_Location |
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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