The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 13
"And are we," asked Effie--"deliverers, I mean?"
Who acts: we, I · What happens: be, ask, mean · To what, where: we, deliverers, Effie · 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 (we, I), 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 | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 we | cc |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 we | cop |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 we | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 deliverers | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 deliverers | punct |
| 11 | deliverers | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 asked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | we | deliverers | Effie | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent effie=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V 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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