The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 118
They were the property of the late King, your great-great--"
Who acts: Chancellor · What happens: be · To what, where: property
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 (Chancellor), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 property | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 property | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 property | det |
| 4 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 7 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 King | amod |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 property | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 great | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 great | nmod:poss |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 great | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 great | punct |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 King | amod |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 property | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 property | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Chancellor | the 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: «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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