The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 126

George put all the things back in his pockets, and said, "No, I shan't.

Who acts: George · What happens: put, say · To what, where: things, pockets · 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 (George), 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	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 things	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 things	det
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pockets	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pockets	nmod:poss
9	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sha	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 sha	punct
15	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	18 sha	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 No	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sha	nsubj
18	sha	sha	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 sha	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	George	all things		sportsman's pockets			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in pocket=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	George not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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