The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 36
"Ah, I guessed as much," said the Champion, thoughtfully. "
Who acts: Champion · What happens: guess, say · To what, where: much · 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 (Champion), 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 guessed | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 guessed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 guessed | nsubj |
| 5 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 guessed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 guessed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 guessed | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Champion | det |
| 12 | Champion | Champion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thoughtfully | punct |
| 14 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess in a quote | past | the Champion = champion | much | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Champion | thoughtfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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