The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 104
"They will put up a monument to us," said Harry, "as high as Nelson's!
Who acts: children, Harry · What happens: put up, say · To what, where: monument, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, 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 | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 monument | det |
| 7 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 high | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 high | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 high | advmod |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 Nelson | case |
| 19 | Nelson | Nelson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 high | obl |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Nelson | case |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up in a quote | future | children = child | a monument | us | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent monument=Goal | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Harry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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