The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 67
"Oh, if you please," said the Queen, "I want a baby--a very nice one.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: say, want · To what, where: baby · 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 please | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 please | nsubj |
| 6 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 said | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 please | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 please | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 want | nsubj |
| 15 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 baby | det |
| 17 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 want | obj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 nice | advmod |
| 21 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 baby | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | the Queen = queen | a baby | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot baby=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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