The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 14
"One could but try," said the collector, and Jane began to feel for the pin.
Who acts: collector, Jane · What happens: try, say, begin, feel · 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, Jane), 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 | _ | 3 could | punct |
| 2 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 could | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 try | cc |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 could | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 could | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 could | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 collector | det |
| 10 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 13 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 feel | mark |
| 16 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 pin | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pin | det |
| 19 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feel | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | infinitive | the collector not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the collector | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | Jane | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | Jane not said here | for the pin | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for pin=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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