The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 93
"Thank you so much for telling us," said George. "
Who acts: George · What happens: thank, tell, say · To what, where: you, us · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 2 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Thank | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 Thank | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 telling | mark |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Thank | advcl |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 telling | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Thank | conj |
| 12 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | gerund | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | George | 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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