The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 96
"Come, little birthday present," he said tenderly. "
Who acts: uncle · What happens: come, say · To what, where: little birthday present · 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), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 present | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 present | amod |
| 5 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 present | compound |
| 6 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | little birthday present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | uncle | tenderly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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