The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 14
And their father the doctor said: "I wish I had known what you were going to do!
Who acts: father · What happens: say, wish, know, go, do · 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 (father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 doctor | det |
| 5 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 father | appos |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 wish | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wish | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wish | nsubj |
| 10 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 known | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 wish | ccomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 going | nsubj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 known | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | xcomp |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | children's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | children's father = father | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past · perfect | children's father = father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | past · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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