The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 69
He happened to be building a Palace when the news came, and he left all the bricks kicking about the floor for Nurse to clear up--but then the news was rather remarkable news.
Who acts: secretary, news, bricks · What happens: happen, build, come, leave, kick, clear up · To what, where: Palace, bricks, remarkable news
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 (secretary, news, bricks), 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 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 building | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 building | aux |
| 5 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Palace | det |
| 7 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 building | obj |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 news | det |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 building | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 bricks | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bricks | det |
| 18 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 left | obj |
| 19 | kicking | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 bricks | acl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 floor | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 floor | det |
| 22 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kicking | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Nurse | case |
| 24 | Nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kicking | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 clear | mark |
| 26 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 kicking | advcl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 clear | compound:prt |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 news | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 news | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 news | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 news | det |
| 32 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 news | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 news | cop |
| 34 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 36 news | advmod |
| 35 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 news | amod |
| 36 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | secretary | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive · progressive | secretary not said here | a Palace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset palace=Product | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the news | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | news | all bricks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brick=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kick | gerund | all bricks not said here | about the floor; for Nurse | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | clear up | to-infinitive | all bricks not said here | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | the news | remarkable news | then | 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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