The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 17

Then Harry spoke to St. George--but he would not answer; and he called, but St. George did not seem to hear; and then he actually tried to waken the great dragon-slayer by shaking his marble shoulders.

Who acts: Harry, George · What happens: speak, not answer, call, not seem, hear, try · To what, where: George, great dragon slayer, marble shoulders · 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 (Harry, George), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 spoke	advmod
2	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 George	case
5	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 George	nmod:desc
6	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 answer	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 answer	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 answer	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 answer	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 answer	advmod
12	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spoke	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 called	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	nsubj
16	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seem	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 seem	cc
19	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 George	nmod:desc
20	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 seem	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seem	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 seem	advmod
23	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 called	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hear	mark
25	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seem	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 tried	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tried	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 tried	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tried	nsubj
30	actually	actually	ADV	_	31 tried	advmod
31	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 waken	mark
33	waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tried	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 slayer	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 slayer	amod
36	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 slayer	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 dragon	punct
38	slayer	slayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 waken	obj
39	by	by	SCONJ	_	40 shaking	mark
40	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 waken	advcl
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 shoulders	nmod:poss
42	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 shoulders	compound
43	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 shaking	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Harry		George St.	then		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to george=Co-Agent
2	not answer speech: assert	would	George					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	past	George					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not seem	past · do-support	George St.					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	hear	to-infinitive	George St. not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	try	past	George			then	actually property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	waken not said to happen	to-infinitive	George not said here	the great dragon slayer				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent slayer=Patient
8	shake	gerund	George not said here	George's marble shoulders				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient

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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