The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 168
He had not been King twenty-four hours, and already he had let loose a Red Dragon to worry his faithful subjects' lives out.
Who acts: Lionel, faithful subjects · What happens: have, not be, let, worry, live out · To what, where: King, 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, faithful subjects), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 King | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 King | cop |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 6 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 four | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 twenty | punct |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hours | nummod |
| 9 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 15 let | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | aux |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 16 | loose | loose | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Dragon | det |
| 18 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Dragon | flat |
| 19 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 let | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 worry | mark |
| 21 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 23 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 subjects | amod |
| 24 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lives | nsubj |
| 25 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 24 subjects | case |
| 26 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 worry | ccomp |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 lives | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Lionel | hour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a | participle | King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let | past · perfect · passive | Lionel | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | worry | to-infinitive | Lionel not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | live out | present | Lionel's faithful subjects | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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