The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 132
"The fact is," the Chancellor went on, twisting his red beard in an agitated way, "your great--"
Who acts: Chancellor, fact · What happens: go on, twist, agitate, be · To what, where: red beard, agitated way
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, fact), 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 | _ | 23 great | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fact | det |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 great | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 great | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Chancellor | det |
| 8 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 great | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 twisting | punct |
| 12 | twisting | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 great | csubj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 beard | nmod:poss |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beard | amod |
| 15 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 twisting | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | agitated | agitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 twisting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 great | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 great | punct |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 great | nmod:poss |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 great | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the Chancellor | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | twist | gerund | Lionel's red beard | a agitated way | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent beard=Theme | ||||
| 3 | agitate | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the fact | great 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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