The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 153
He hated being shaken, as all boys do; he would much rather have been slapped.
Who acts: Lionel, boys · What happens: hate, shake, do, slap · To what, where: Lionel
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, boys), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hated | nsubj |
| 2 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 shaken | aux:pass |
| 4 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hated | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 boys | det |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shaken | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 slapped | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 slapped | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 slapped | aux |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 rather | advmod |
| 14 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 17 slapped | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 slapped | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 slapped | aux:pass |
| 17 | slapped | slap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hated | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | Lionel | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | shake not said to happen | gerund · passive | Lionel not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | do | present | all boys | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | slap | would · perfect · passive | Lionel | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument |
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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