The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 116
Effie said no, but where could they find St. George?
Who acts: Effie, people · What happens: say, find · To what, where: George · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Effie, people), 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 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 find | cc |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 find | advmod |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 10 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 George | nmod:desc |
| 11 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Effie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | could | people | George St. | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent george=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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