The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 106
"I hope the one that was waiting outside for us is dead!" said Effie. "
Who acts: Effie, one · What happens: hope, wait, be, say · 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 (Effie, one), 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 | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dead | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 waiting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waiting | aux |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 8 waiting | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 waiting | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dead | cop |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 17 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | Effie | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | past · progressive | the one | for us; outside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the one | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | Effie | 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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