The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 55

"They aren't that sort of families at all, Silly," said her brother, kindly trying to explain. "

Who acts: families, sort · What happens: not be, say, try, explain · To what, where: sort · 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 (families, sort), 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	_	6 sort	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sort	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sort	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sort	advmod
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sort	det
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 families	case
8	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sort	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 families	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Silly	punct
12	Silly	Silly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sort	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sort	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sort	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brother	nmod:poss
17	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trying	punct
19	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	20 trying	advmod
20	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 explain	mark
22	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 trying	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 explain	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 explain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	families = family	that sort and Silly	of families at all	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	that sort and Silly			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	try	gerund	that sort and Silly not said here		kindly property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	explain speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	that sort and Silly not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «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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