The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 97
Then she said to the Queen: "Your child will have hair as golden as your crown, eyes as blue as your sapphires.
Who acts: witch, child, your · What happens: say, have, crown · To what, where: Queen, hair · 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 (witch, child, your), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Queen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 9 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 child | nmod:poss |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 golden | advmod |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 have | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 crown | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 crown | nmod:poss |
| 18 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 golden | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eyes | punct |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 blue | case |
| 22 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 sapphires | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sapphires | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sapphires | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 blue | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | witch | the Queen | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | future | Your child | hair | golden property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | |||
| 3 | crown in a quote | your | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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