The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 56

Jane said so, but George said, "Oh, don't bother; I'm thinking how to get onto the Pole and try the compass without waking the brute."

Who acts: Jane, George · What happens: say, not bother, think, get, try, wake · To what, where: Pole, compass, brute · 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), 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bother	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bother	punct
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	14 bother	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Oh	punct
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 bother	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bother	advmod
14	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 thinking	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 thinking	nsubj
17	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thinking	aux
18	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	advcl
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 get	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thinking	ccomp
22	onto	onto	ADP	_	24 Pole	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Pole	det
24	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 get	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 try	cc
26	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 get	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 compass	det
28	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 try	obj
29	without	without	SCONJ	_	30 waking	mark
30	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 try	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 brute	det
32	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 waking	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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 clause=Topic
3	not bother in a quote	infinitive · do-support				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	think speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	Jane			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	get in a quote	to-infinitive			the Pole	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme onto pole=Destination
6	try in a quote	infinitive		the compass		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compass=Eventuality
7	wake in a quote	gerund		the brute		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brute=Patient

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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