The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 10

"Curiously enough," said the collector, "I too wish to use the needle in connection with cork."

Who acts: collector · What happens: say, wish, use · To what, where: needle, connection · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (collector), 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	_	2 Curiously	punct
2	Curiously	curiously	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
3	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 Curiously	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Curiously	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Curiously	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 collector	det
8	collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wish	nsubj
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 wish	advmod
13	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 use	mark
15	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wish	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 needle	det
17	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 use	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 connection	case
19	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 use	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 cork	case
21	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 connection	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the collector			curiously property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish in a quote	present	the collector = collector				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	use not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the collector = collector not said here	the needle	connection with cork		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Patient

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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