The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 56

I only said 'families' because a kid like you wouldn't have understood if I'd said constel ... and, besides, I've forgotten the end of the word.

Who acts: I · What happens: say, not understand, forget · To what, where: families, kid, end · 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 (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	3 said	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 families	punct
5	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 families	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 understood	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kid	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 understood	nsubj:pass
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 kid	nmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 understood	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 understood	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 understood	aux
15	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 said	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
18	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 understood	advcl
20	constel	constel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
21	...	...	PUNCT	_	28 forgotten	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 forgotten	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	besides	besides	INTJ	_	28 forgotten	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 besides	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 forgotten	nsubj
27	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 forgotten	aux
28	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 end	det
30	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 forgotten	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 word	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 word	det
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 end	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I	families	tree rules
2	not understand	would · perfect · passive		a kid like you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	would	I		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	forget	present · perfect	I	the end of the word	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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