The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 61
Everyone thought of themselves--and they said, "What is the simple precaution?"
Who acts: Everyone, police · What happens: think, say, be · To what, where: simple precaution · 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 (Everyone, police), 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 themselves | case |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 thought | obl |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 precaution | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 precaution | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 precaution | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 precaution | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 precaution | det |
| 14 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 precaution | amod |
| 15 | precaution | precaution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 precaution | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 precaution | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Everyone | of police | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | police | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the simple precaution | tree rules |
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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