The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 22
"Well, well," said he, "here's a whole Arctic expedition thrown away!
Who acts: collector · What happens: say, be, throw away · To what, where: whole Arctic expedition · 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 here | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 here | punct |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 here | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 expedition | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 expedition | amod |
| 15 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 expedition | amod |
| 16 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 here | nsubj |
| 17 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 expedition | acl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 thrown | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | collector | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw away in a quote | participle | a whole Arctic expedition not said here | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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