The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 40
"I daresay lots of people have gotten here," said Jane, dismally. "
Who acts: Jane, lots · What happens: daresay, get, say · 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, lots), 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 daresay | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 daresay | nsubj |
| 3 | daresay | daresay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gotten | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lots | nmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gotten | aux |
| 8 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 daresay | ccomp |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 gotten | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 daresay | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 daresay | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dismally | punct |
| 15 | dismally | dismally | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daresay in a quote | present | Jane | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | lots of people | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Jane | dismally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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