The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 100

"Oh, thank you, thank you," said the Queen, "and when will it come?"

Who acts: Queen, soul · What happens: thank, say, come · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, soul), 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	_	4 thank	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 thank	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
7	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thank	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Queen	det
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 come	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 come	advmod
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thank	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		you	tree rules
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		you	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Queen		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	come in a quote	future	soul		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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