The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 160
So he kissed the Prime Minister, and they settled down for a nice quiet game of noughts and crosses while the Chancellor went to add up his accounts.
Who acts: Lionel, friends, Chancellor · What happens: kiss, settle down, go, add up, account · To what, where: Prime Minister, accounts
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, friends, Chancellor), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Minister | det |
| 5 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 6 Minister | compound |
| 6 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 settled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 settled | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 settled | nsubj |
| 10 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 settled | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 game | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 game | det |
| 14 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 game | amod |
| 15 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 game | amod |
| 16 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 settled | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 noughts | case |
| 18 | noughts | nought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 game | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 crosses | cc |
| 20 | crosses | cross | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 noughts | conj |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 went | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Chancellor | det |
| 23 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 settled | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 add | mark |
| 26 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 went | xcomp |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 add | compound:prt |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 accounts | nmod:poss |
| 29 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 add | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Lionel | the Prime Minister | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | settle down | past | friends = friend | for a nice quiet game of noughts and crosses | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the Chancellor | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | add up speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Chancellor not said here | Lionel's accounts | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Patient | ||||
| 5 | account | Lionel | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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