The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 35

Father says it is the hottest weather there has ever been in this country."

Who acts: Father, sort, hottest weather · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: hottest weather, country · 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 (Father, sort, hottest weather), 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	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 weather	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 weather	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weather	det
6	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 weather	amod
7	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 weather	advmod
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 weather	acl:relcl
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 country	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 country	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 country	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 country	det
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	sort	the hottest weather	there		tree rules
3	have	present	the hottest weather not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle			this country	ever	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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