The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 23

"It's no good," he said, "they would be one too many for poor old George.

Who acts: head, George, dragons · What happens: be, say · To what, where: one · 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 (head, George, dragons), 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	_	5 good	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 good	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 good	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 one	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 one	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 one	cop
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 said	ccomp
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 many	advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 George	case
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 George	amod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 George	amod
21	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 many	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	head		good property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	George			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	would	dragons = dragon	one		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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