The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 41
"Oh, but you can," cried Effie. "
What happens: cry
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: 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 | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 cried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 can | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 can | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Oh | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | flat |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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