More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 89
(We know there were fiery dragons in those days, like George and his dragon in the legend; but, there! it's not the same world nowadays.
Who acts: We, fiery dragons, dragon · What happens: know, be, not be · To what, where: same world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, fiery dragons, dragon), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 world | parataxis |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 6 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dragons | amod |
| 7 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 days | det |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 George | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 George | case |
| 13 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 days | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dragon | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dragon | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 George | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 legend | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 legend | det |
| 19 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dragon | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 there | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 there | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 there | punct |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 know | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 world | nsubj |
| 26 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 world | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 world | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 world | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 world | amod |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 31 | nowadays | nowadays | ADV | _ | 30 world | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 world | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | fiery dragons | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | not is a | present | dragon | the same world | nowadays property | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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