The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 49
The professor leaned forward before the doctor could say a word. "
Who acts: professor, doctor · What happens: learn, say · To what, where: word · 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 (professor, doctor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 professor | det |
| 2 | professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaned | nsubj |
| 3 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 leaned | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 say | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 doctor | det |
| 7 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | aux |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 leaned | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 word | det |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaned | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | the professor | forward property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | could | the doctor | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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