The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 136
"Of course not--a most worthy King was your great--"
Who acts: worthy King · What happens: not 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 (worthy King), 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 | _ | 12 great | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 not | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 great | advmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 great | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 worthy | advmod |
| 8 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 King | amod |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 great | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 great | cop |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 great | nmod:poss |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 great | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | a worthy King | 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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