The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 51

There goes a jolly rocket," answered George, and Jane felt as if she almost understood about the star families.

Who acts: Jane · What happens: go, answer, feel, understand · To what, where: jolly rocket, George · 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), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 goes	expl
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rocket	det
4	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rocket	amod
5	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	parataxis
9	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 felt	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 felt	cc
12	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 felt	nsubj
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	parataxis
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 understood	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 understood	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 understood	nsubj
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 understood	advmod
18	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 felt	advcl
19	about	about	ADP	_	22 families	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 families	det
21	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 families	compound
22	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 understood	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present		a jolly rocket		there		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert in a quote	past			George			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent george=Eventuality
3	feel in a quote	past	Jane					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	understand in a quote	past	Jane				about the star families; almost property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about family=Stimulus

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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