The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 128
"No, no"--both the gentlemen were sincerely shocked. "
Who acts: gentlemen · What happens: be
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 (gentlemen), 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 | _ | 4 no | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 no | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 shocked | discourse |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 no | punct |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 shocked | punct |
| 7 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 12 shocked | cc:preconj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gentlemen | det |
| 9 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shocked | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shocked | cop |
| 11 | sincerely | sincerely | ADV | _ | 12 shocked | advmod |
| 12 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shocked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 shocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gentlemen | shocked, sincerely 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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