The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 11
Mother said: "Oh, my darlings, my darlings, you're safe--you're safe!
Who acts: Mother, you · What happens: say, be · 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 (Mother, you), 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 darlings | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 darlings | punct |
| 5 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 darlings | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Oh | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 darlings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | darlings | darling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 darlings | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 darlings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | darlings | darling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 darlings | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 safe | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 safe | nsubj |
| 14 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 safe | cop |
| 15 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 safe | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 safe | nsubj |
| 18 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 safe | cop |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 safe | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | safe property | tree rules |
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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