The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 15
But George pinched her arm and whispered, "Ask what he wants it for."
Who acts: George · What happens: pinch, whisper, ask, want · To what, where: arm · 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 pinched | cc |
| 2 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pinched | nsubj |
| 3 | pinched | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arm | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pinched | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 whispered | cc |
| 7 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pinched | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ask | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ask | punct |
| 10 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 whispered | parataxis |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 wants | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wants | nsubj |
| 13 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Ask | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wants | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 wants | case |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pinched | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pinched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch | past | George | Jane's arm | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | George not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | George | arm | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme it=Attribute |
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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