The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 82
"Anything you ask for, and all I have," said the Queen.
Who acts: you, Queen · What happens: ask, have, 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, 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 | _ | 2 Anything | punct |
| 2 | Anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Anything | acl:relcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 ask | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 said | ccomp |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 all | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 all | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 all | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the Queen = queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the 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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