The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 32

He says everything is done by machinery now; there must be some way of settling these dragons.

Who acts: Andrew, machinery, way · What happens: say, do, be, settle · To what, where: everything, dragons · 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 (Andrew, machinery, way), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 done	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 says	ccomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 machinery	case
7	machinery	machinery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	obl
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 done	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 be	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 be	expl
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 be	aux
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 be	nsubj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 settling	mark
16	settling	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 way	acl
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 dragons	det
18	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 settling	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Andrew				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	present · passive	machinery	everything		now	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
3	be	must	some way		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	settle	gerund	some way not said here	this dragons			vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dragon=Location

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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