The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 99
Then the chief dwarf came quite close and said: "What's that on your head?"
Who acts: chief dwarf · What happens: come, say, be · To what, where: that, head · 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 (chief dwarf), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dwarf | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dwarf | amod |
| 4 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 close | advmod |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 that | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 that | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 that | obj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 that | cop |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 that | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the chief dwarf | then | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the chief dwarf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | your head | 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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