The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 34
This seemed so careless and unkind that Harry would not answer, but Effie said patiently, "It has been very fine.
Who acts: This, Harry, Effie, sort · What happens: seem, not answer, say, be · 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 (This, Harry, Effie, sort), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 careless | advmod |
| 4 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 unkind | cc |
| 6 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 careless | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 answer | mark |
| 8 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answer | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 answer | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 answer | advmod |
| 11 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 unkind | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 14 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 16 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fine | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 fine | punct |
| 19 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fine | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fine | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 fine | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 fine | advmod |
| 23 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | This | careless property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | would | Harry | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Effie | patiently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present · perfect | sort | fine property | 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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