The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 51
"Oh, George," cried Jane, "it _is_ a dragon; I can see its wings.
Who acts: George · What happens: cry, be, see · To what, where: Jane, dragon, wings · 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 George | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 George | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 George | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 it | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 it | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | obl |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dragon | cop |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dragon | det |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | George | Jane | lump obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jane=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | can | George | lump's wings | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wing=Stimulus |
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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