The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 20
And at that St. George opened his eyes sleepily, and stretched himself and said: "What's the matter, little girl?"
Who acts: George · What happens: open, stretch, say, be · To what, where: eyes, George, matter · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 opened | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 George | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 George | nsubj |
| 4 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 George | nmod:desc |
| 5 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | nsubj |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | sleepily | sleepily | ADV | _ | 6 opened | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stretched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stretched | cc |
| 12 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | advcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 stretched | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stretched | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 matter | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 matter | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 matter | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 matter | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 matter | det |
| 21 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 girl | punct |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | amod |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 matter | appos |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 girl | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | George St. | George's eyes | sleepily property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | stretch | past | George St. not said here | George | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | George St. not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | tree rules |
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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