The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 102
"And won't you have something for yourself?" asked the Queen. "
Who acts: Queen · What happens: not have, ask · To what, where: something, Queen · 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), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 have | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 yourself | case |
| 9 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 something | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | future | the Queen = queen | something | for the Queen = queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Queen | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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