The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 66
"The present the dragon expects," said Uncle James, cheerfully, "is rather an expensive one.
Who acts: present, Uncle James · What happens: expect, say, be · To what, where: expensive one · 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 (present, Uncle James), 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 expects | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 present | det |
| 3 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expects | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expects | nsubj |
| 6 | expects | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 expects | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 expects | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 James | compound |
| 11 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cheerfully | punct |
| 13 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 20 one | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cheerfully | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cheerfully | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | cop |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 20 one | advmod |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect in a quote | present | the present | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle James | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a expensive one | cheerfully property | 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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