The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 86
Jane stopped crying to say: "You are heartless."
Who acts: Jane, You · What happens: stop, cry, say, be · 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, You), 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 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stopped | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 crying | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 heartless | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 heartless | punct |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 heartless | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 heartless | cop |
| 10 | heartless | heartless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stopped | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heartless | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 heartless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Jane | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | Jane not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Jane not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | You | heartless property | tree rules |
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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