The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 17
"Oh, thank you--thank you, darling Arctic moth," cried Jane. "
Who acts: Jane · What happens: thank, darl, cry · To what, where: you, Arctic moth · 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 (Jane), 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 | _ | 10 darling | punct |
| 10 | darling | darl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 thank | advcl |
| 11 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moth | amod |
| 12 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 darling | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thank | conj |
| 16 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 3 | darl in a quote | gerund | Arctic moth | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | Jane | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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