The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 79
"The King would be very much annoyed," said the poor Queen.
Who acts: King, poor Queen · What happens: be, 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 (King, poor 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 | _ | 8 annoyed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 annoyed | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 annoyed | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 annoyed | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 annoyed | advmod |
| 8 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 annoyed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 annoyed | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Queen | amod |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would | the King | annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the poor Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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