The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 16
"How ever can we wake him?" they said.
Who acts: we, deliverers · What happens: wake, say · To what, where: George · 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, deliverers), 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 wake | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 ever | advmod |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 wake | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wake | aux |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 wake | nsubj |
| 6 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wake | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 wake | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wake | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake in a quote | can | we | George | ever | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | deliverers = deliverer | 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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