The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 50

I'll give you half a crown for it, Harry, my lad," he said, speaking very fast; and then he picked it up carefully on his handkerchief.

Who acts: I, Harry · What happens: give, say, speak, pick up · To what, where: crown, you, 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 (I, Harry), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 crown	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crown	det
7	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Harry	punct
11	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lad	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 lad	nmod:poss
14	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Harry	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lad	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 lad	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 speaking	punct
20	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	advcl
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 fast	advmod
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 speaking	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 picked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 picked	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 picked	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 picked	nsubj
27	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 picked	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 picked	compound:prt
30	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	27 picked	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 handkerchief	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 handkerchief	nmod:poss
33	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 picked	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	half crown	you			for crown	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Harry						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other in a quote	gerund	Harry not said here					fast property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pick up in a quote	past	Harry	crown		Harry's handkerchief	then	carefully property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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