The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 115
"You don't happen to have any bullets about you?" said he.
Who acts: You, sportsman · What happens: not happen, have, say · To what, where: bullets · 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 (You, sportsman), 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 | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 happen | advmod |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happen | xcomp |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 bullets | det |
| 9 | bullets | bullet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bullets | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not happen in a quote | present · do-support | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | any bullets | about you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullet=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | sportsman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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