The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 102
It's made of one of us," he screamed, "or else one of the seals, our poor relations.
Who acts: George · What happens: make, scream · To what, where: answer · 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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 made | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 screamed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 screamed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 screamed | nsubj |
| 11 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 screamed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 screamed | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 one | cc |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 screamed | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 seals | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 seals | det |
| 19 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 relations | punct |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 relations | nmod:poss |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 relations | amod |
| 23 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seals | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | answer | of one of us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express in a quote | past | George | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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