The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 80
"All right," said George, "but mind, I don't want to go."
Who acts: George · What happens: say, not want, go · 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 (George), 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 right | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 right | det |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 George | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 George | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 mind | cc |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 George | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 want | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 want | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 want | advmod |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 want | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | George but mind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | George but mind = george | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | George but mind = george not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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