The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 115
"Perhaps it will," said the witch, "and when the sorrow comes, send for me.
Who acts: witch, sorrow · What happens: say, come, send · 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 (witch, sorrow), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 will | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 will | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 send | cc |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 comes | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sorrow | det |
| 15 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 send | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 18 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 send | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | future | the witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | the sorrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send in a quote | infinitive | the witch not said here | for the witch = witch | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: 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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