The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 94

Jane said so; but George said it was like the electric lights at the Earl's Court Exhibition.

Who acts: Jane, George, road, Earl · What happens: say, be, exhibit · To what, where: Court Exhibition · 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 (Jane, George, road, Earl), 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	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 said	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
6	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lights	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lights	cop
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 lights	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lights	det
12	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lights	amod
13	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	ccomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	19 Exhibition	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Earl	det
16	Earl	Earl	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Exhibition	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Earl	case
18	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Exhibition	compound
19	Exhibition	exhibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lights	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jane			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	George			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	road	the Earl's Court Exhibition	like the electric lights	tree rules
4	exhibit		the Earl			nom exhibition «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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