The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 40
"Good night, very sorry I can't help you," he said, yawning behind his marble hand.
Who acts: George · What happens: not help, say, yawn · To what, where: you, marble hand · 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 (George), 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 | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sorry | advmod |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | conj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 help | nsubj |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 help | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 help | advmod |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sorry | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 yawning | punct |
| 17 | yawning | yawn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 said | advcl |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hand | amod |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 yawning | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help in a quote | can | George | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | George | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | yawn | gerund | George not said here | George's marble hand | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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