The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 128
I'm very sorry; but I can't--so there!"
Who acts: I · What happens: be
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 sorry | advmod |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 ca | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 ca | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ca | nsubj |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 ca | advmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 there | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 there | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sorry | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can · present | I | sorry property | 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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