The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 176
But the Prime Minister and the Chancellor had other things to think of than forgiving Lionel.
Who acts: Prime Minister · What happens: have, think, forgive · To what, where: other things, 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 (Prime Minister), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Minister | det |
| 3 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 4 Minister | compound |
| 4 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Chancellor | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Chancellor | det |
| 7 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Minister | conj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 things | acl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 think | obl |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 forgiving | mark |
| 15 | forgiving | forgive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 think | advcl |
| 16 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 forgiving | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Prime Minister and the Chancellor | other things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the Prime Minister and the Chancellor not said here | other things not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | forgive | gerund | the Prime Minister and the Chancellor not said here | Lionel | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lionel=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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