The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 124
But Jane pulled at her brother's jacket-tail and whispered, "Ask him what he wants it for."
Who acts: Jane, brother · What happens: pull, whisper, ask, want · To what, where: brother, tail · 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, brother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 pulled | cc |
| 2 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 tail | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 8 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tail | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 jacket | punct |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 whispered | cc |
| 12 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ask | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ask | punct |
| 15 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 whispered | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 Ask | obj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 wants | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wants | nsubj |
| 19 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Ask | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wants | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 wants | case |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | Jane | at Jane's brother's jacket tail | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at tail=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Jane not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | brother | tail | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme it=Attribute |
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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