The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 48

"But I know," said he, "that it has something to do with the Great Bear, and the Dipper, and the Plough, and Charles's Wain."

Who acts: fiddlestick, Borealis · What happens: know, say, have, do · To what, where: something · 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 (fiddlestick, Borealis), 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	_	4 know	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 know	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 has	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 has	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 something	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 Bear	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Bear	det
19	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Bear	amod
20	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Dipper	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Dipper	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Dipper	det
24	Dipper	Dipper	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 has	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Plough	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Plough	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Plough	det
28	Plough	Plough	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Dipper	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Wain	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Wain	cc
31	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Wain	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Charles	case
33	Wain	Wain	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Dipper	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 Dipper	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	fiddlestick			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	fiddlestick			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	Borealis	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive	Borealis not said here	something not said here	with the Great Bear	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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