The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 7
"I have a needle _book_," replied Jane, politely, "but there aren't any needles in it now.
Who acts: Jane, needles · What happens: have, reply, not be · To what, where: needle · 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, needles), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 needle | det |
| 5 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 book | punct |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 book | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 politely | punct |
| 14 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 11 replied | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 politely | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 are | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 are | expl |
| 19 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 are | advmod |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 needles | det |
| 22 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 are | nsubj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 needles | nmod |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 are | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Jane | a needle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Jane | politely property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not does in a quote | present | any needles in book | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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