The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 91
Oh, you dear, good, clever Tom," she said. "
Who acts: Princess · What happens: 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 (Princess), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 dear | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 dear | nsubj |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dear | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tom | punct |
| 8 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Tom | amod |
| 9 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 good | vocative |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dear | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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