The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 151
And the Chancellor gave the King a good shaking, and said: "You're a naughty, disobedient little King!" and was very angry indeed.
Who acts: Chancellor, You · What happens: give, say, be · To what, where: good shaking, King, naughty disobedient little King · Speech: someone speaks here
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, You), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Chancellor | det |
| 3 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shaking | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shaking | amod |
| 9 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 King | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 King | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 King | nsubj |
| 16 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 King | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 18 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 King | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 naughty | punct |
| 20 | disobedient | disobedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 King | amod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 King | amod |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 King | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 King | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 angry | cc |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 angry | cop |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 angry | advmod |
| 28 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 29 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 28 angry | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Chancellor | a good shaking | the King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient shaking=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Chancellor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | You | a naughty disobedient little King | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | angry, indeed 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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