The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 59

I said if we were little stars."

Who acts: I, we · What happens: say, be · To what, where: little stars · 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, we), 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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 stars	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 stars	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stars	cop
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stars	amod
7	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	we	little stars					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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