The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 123
"Um," said Harry, wishing he had thought of it for himself, "you have a little sense sometimes, for a girl."
Who acts: Um, Harry, you · What happens: say, wish, think, have · To what, where: little sense · 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 (Um, Harry, you), 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 Um | punct |
| 2 | Um | Um | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Um | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Um | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wishing | punct |
| 8 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | aux |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 wishing | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 thought | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sense | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sense | amod |
| 22 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 23 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 have | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 girl | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 girl | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 girl | det |
| 27 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Um | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish | gerund | Um not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past · perfect | Harry | of course; for Harry | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | you | a little sense | sometimes property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient |
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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