The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 6
"Excuse me," said the collector, "but have you such a thing as a needle about you--a very long needle?"
Who acts: you, collector · What happens: excuse, say, have · To what, where: collector, thing · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 2 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Excuse | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Excuse | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 collector | det |
| 8 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Excuse | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 thing | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 needle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 needle | det |
| 19 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thing | nmod |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 needle | nmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 needle | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 needle | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 long | advmod |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 needle | amod |
| 26 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thing | conj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the collector = collector | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the collector | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | such thing and a long needle | as a needle about you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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