The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 51
"It is a new specimen," he said, "and finer than yours, Doctor."
Who acts: crown, Harry · What happens: be, say · To what, where: new specimen · 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 (crown, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 specimen | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 specimen | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 specimen | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 specimen | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 specimen | amod |
| 6 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 specimen | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 specimen | 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 | _ | 14 finer | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 finer | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 finer | cc |
| 14 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 said | nsubj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 yours | case |
| 16 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 finer | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Doctor | punct |
| 18 | Doctor | Doctor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 finer | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | crown | a new specimen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Harry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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