The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 97

Then George said: "Way or no way, I know a slide when I see one--so here goes."

Who acts: George · What happens: say, know, see, go · To what, where: slide, one · 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Way	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Way	punct
6	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 way	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Way	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Way	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 slide	det
14	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 know	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 see	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 know	advcl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 see	obj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 goes	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 here	advmod
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 goes	advmod
22	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 goes	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	George			then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	George	a slide			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer slide=Stimulus
3	see in a quote	present	George	one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	go in a quote	present			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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