The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 142

"You oughtn't to speak to my mother like that," said the Princess.

Who acts: You, Princess · What happens: not speak, say · 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 (You, Princess), 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 speak	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 speak	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 speak	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mother	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speak	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 mother	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other in a quote	ought	You					to my mother like that	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mother=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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