The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 27
Effie stood holding her handkerchief to her eye, and said: "I don't believe it's out."
Who acts: Effie · What happens: stand, hold, say, not believe out · To what, where: handkerchief · 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), 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 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stood | xcomp |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 5 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holding | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 eye | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eye | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 believe | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 believe | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 believe | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 believe | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 believe | advmod |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 out | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 out | cop |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 believe | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 believe | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Effie | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Effie not said here | Effie's handkerchief | to Effie's eye | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Effie not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not believe out in a quote | present · do-support | Effie | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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