The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 116
"Let's turn it on," she said. "
Who acts: you, 's, Effie · What happens: let, turn on, say · To what, where: 's, Rain · 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 (you, 's, Effie), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turn | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 turn | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn on in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | Rain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Effie | 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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