The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 126
"He was a very good King--oh, yes, really a very superior King in his way, but he was a little--well, strange."
Who acts: Lionel · What happens: be · To what, where: good King
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 (Lionel), 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 | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 King | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 King | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 King | amod |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 strange | nsubj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 9 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 30 strange | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 oh | punct |
| 11 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 17 King | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 King | punct |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 King | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 superior | advmod |
| 16 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 King | amod |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 strange | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 King | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 little | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 little | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 little | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 little | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 little | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 King | conj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 strange | punct |
| 28 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 30 strange | discourse |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 well | punct |
| 30 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 strange | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Lionel | a good King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Lionel | little 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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