The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 41
"You might give me sixpence, Daddy," said Effie, "because I did bring you the new specimen.
Who acts: You, Effie · What happens: give, say, bring · To what, where: sixpence, Effie, new specimen, you · 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 (You, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Daddy | punct |
| 8 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 give | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 bring | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bring | aux |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 specimen | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 specimen | amod |
| 22 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | might | You | sixpence | Effie | Daddy vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sixpence=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Effie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | past · do-support | Effie | the new specimen | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination specimen=Theme |
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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