The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 119

"Oh, you dear, good, kind white grouse," said Jane, "but you'll be cold yourself, won't you, now you have given us all your pretty dear feathers?"

Who acts: kind white grouse, you · What happens: say, be, give · To what, where: pretty dear feathers, us · 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 (kind white grouse, you), 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	_	14 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 dear	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 dear	nsubj
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 good	punct
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dear	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grouse	punct
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grouse	amod
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grouse	amod
11	grouse	grouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grouse	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 grouse	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 cold	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 cold	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 cold	nsubj
20	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cold	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 cold	cop
22	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	conj
23	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 cold	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cold	punct
25	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 you	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 you	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 cold	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 given	punct
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 given	advmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 given	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 given	aux
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 given	iobj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 feathers	det:predet
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 feathers	nmod:poss
36	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 feathers	amod
37	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 feathers	amod
38	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 given	obj
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 given	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	kind white grouse					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	future	you				cold property	tree rules
3	give in a quote	present · perfect	you	your pretty dear feathers	us	now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient feather=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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