The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 85
"Oh--just for spite," bawled the dwarfs carelessly--as if they were saying, "Just for fun."
Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: bawl, 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 (dwarfs), 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 | _ | 6 spite | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 spite | discourse |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 spite | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 spite | case |
| 6 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bawled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spite | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bawled | punct |
| 9 | bawled | bawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dwarfs | det |
| 11 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bawled | obj |
| 12 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 9 bawled | advmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 saying | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 saying | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saying | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saying | aux |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 bawled | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fun | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 fun | punct |
| 21 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 23 fun | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 fun | case |
| 23 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 fun | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bawl speech: other | past | the dwarfs | for spite; carelessly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for spite=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | dwarfs = dwarf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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