The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 82
"We can't be worse off than we are," said Harry, "with a dragon waiting for us outside.
Who acts: We, Harry, dragon · What happens: not be, be, say, wait · 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, Harry, dragon), 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 | _ | 6 worse | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 worse | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 worse | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 worse | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 worse | cop |
| 6 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 said | nsubj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 worse | compound:prt |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 are | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 are | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 worse | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 worse | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 worse | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dragon | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 dragon | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 dragon | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dragon | det |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Harry | appos |
| 20 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 dragon | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 waiting | obl |
| 23 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 20 waiting | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | can | We | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Harry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | gerund | a dragon not said here | for us; outside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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