The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 24
When he had gotten the thing out, he said: "This is very curious."
Who acts: kind, This · What happens: get out, say, be · To what, where: thing · 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 (kind, This), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gotten | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gotten | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gotten | aux |
| 4 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gotten | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 gotten | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gotten | 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 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 curious | punct |
| 13 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 curious | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 curious | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 curious | advmod |
| 16 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 curious | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past · perfect | kind | the thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | kind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | This | curious 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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