The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 51
We didn't meet any the size of the dining room as we came along," she said. "
Who acts: We, size · What happens: not meet, come along, say · To what, where: size · 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 (We, size), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 meet | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 meet | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 meet | advmod |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 size | det |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 size | det |
| 7 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meet | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 10 | dining | dining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 room | compound |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 size | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | advcl |
| 15 | along | along | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 meet | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meet | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not meet | past · do-support | We | any size of the dining room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come along | past | we | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | size | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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