The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 27
"What is it, Fido--good little elephant--then?" said Tom, and the sagacious animal repeated its former gesture.
Who acts: Fido, elephant · What happens: be, say, repeat, gesture · To what, where: Fido, sagacious animal · 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 (Fido, elephant), 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 | _ | 6 Fido | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 Fido | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Fido | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Fido | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fido | punct |
| 6 | Fido | Fido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 elephant | punct |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 elephant | amod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 elephant | amod |
| 10 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fido | appos |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 elephant | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 Fido | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fido | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fido | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 repeated | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 repeated | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 animal | det |
| 20 | sagacious | sagacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animal | amod |
| 21 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | conj |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 gesture | nmod:poss |
| 24 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gesture | amod |
| 25 | gesture | gesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 repeated | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Fido | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Fido | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | repeat | participle · passive | the sagacious animal | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | gesture | elephant | nom gesture «act intransitive»: poss=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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