The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 54
"We might hide in the church till it is dark," he said, "and then--"
Who acts: We, much, Harry · What happens: hide, be, say · To what, where: church · 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, much, Harry), 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 | _ | 4 hide | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hide | aux |
| 4 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hide | obl |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 dark | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dark | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dark | cop |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dark | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 dark | 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 | 4 hide | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hide | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 then | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hide | conj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 hide | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide in a quote | might | We | the church | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | much | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Harry | 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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