The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 90
"Polar bears and Arctic wolves, of course I mean," she said, for she did not want George to think her stupid again.
Who acts: Polar bears, Bear, George · What happens: mean, say, not want, think · To what, where: George, Bear · 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 (Polar bears, Bear, 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 bears | punct |
| 2 | Polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bears | amod |
| 3 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wolves | cc |
| 5 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wolves | amod |
| 6 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bears | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 11 mean | advmod |
| 9 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 of | fixed |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 want | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 want | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 want | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 want | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 want | advmod |
| 21 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 22 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 want | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 think | mark |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 want | xcomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 think | obj |
| 26 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 think | xcomp |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 stupid | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | Polar bears and Arctic wolves | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not want | past · do-support | Bear | George | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | George not said here | Bear | stupid property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=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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