The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 123
"One could but try," the sportsman replied, and he held out his hand.
Who acts: One, sportsman · What happens: try, reply, hold out · To what, where: hand · 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 (One, 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 try | punct |
| 2 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 try | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 try | aux |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 try | cc |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sportsman | det |
| 9 | sportsman | sportsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 try | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 held | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | nsubj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 held | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | could | One | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the sportsman | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold out | past | sportsman | sportsman's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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