The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 33
Jane said so, but George said they were as straight as ramrods.
Who acts: Jane, George, hundreds · What happens: say, be · 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 (Jane, George, hundreds), 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 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 6 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 straight | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 straight | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 straight | advmod |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 ramrods | case |
| 13 | ramrods | ramrod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 straight | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jane | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | George | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | hundreds = hundred | as ramrods; straight property | tree rules |
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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