The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 106

Jane said that, and George said: "I can see the Northern Lights quite plain."

Who acts: Jane, George · What happens: say, see · To what, where: Northern Lights · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jane, George), 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	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	2 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
6	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Lights	det
14	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Lights	amod
15	Lights	Light	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 see	obj
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 plain	advmod
17	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 see	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jane		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	George		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	can	George	the Northern Lights	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus

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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