The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 8
And what did Father and Mother say when Effie and Harry got home?
Who acts: Father, Effie · What happens: say, get · 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 (Father, Effie), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 say | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 say | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Father | aux |
| 4 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Mother | cc |
| 6 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Father | conj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 got | advmod |
| 9 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Harry | cc |
| 11 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Effie | conj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | ccomp |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 got | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Father and Mother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | past | Effie and Harry | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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