The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 118
"Quite so," said the sportsman, "these accidents will occur.
Who acts: sportsman, accidents · What happens: say, occur · To what, where: sportsman · 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 (sportsman, accidents), 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 | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 2 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sportsman | det |
| 8 | sportsman | sportsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 occur | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 occur | punct |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 accidents | det |
| 12 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 occur | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 occur | aux |
| 14 | occur | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sportsman | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the sportsman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | occur in a quote | future | this accidents | the sportsman not said here | 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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