The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 102
"But hadn't my great-great-however-much-it-is-grandfather a crown?"
Who acts: crown · What happens: not have, be · To what, where: crown, great much grandfather
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crown), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 had | advmod |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 great | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 great | punct |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grandfather | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 great | punct |
| 10 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 however | punct |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grandfather | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 grandfather | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grandfather | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 it | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 grandfather | cop |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 grandfather | punct |
| 18 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 crown | det |
| 20 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | past | a crown | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | crown | my great much grandfather | 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: «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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