The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 96
Effie said, "Dragons do not like cold."
Who acts: Effie, Dragons · What happens: say, not like · To what, where: cold · 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 (Effie, Dragons), 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 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 5 | Dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 like | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 like | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 like | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 like | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Effie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | Dragons | cold | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cold=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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