The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 69
"It looks very near," said Jane, hunching up her shoulders to keep her neck warm.
Who acts: fencing, Jane · What happens: look, say, hunch up, keep · To what, where: shoulders, neck · 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 (fencing, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 near | advmod |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 looks | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hunching | punct |
| 11 | hunching | hunch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 hunching | compound:prt |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hunching | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hunching | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obj |
| 19 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 keep | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | fencing | near property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jane | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hunch up | gerund | Jane not said here | Jane's shoulders | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | Jane not said here | Jane's neck | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme |
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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