The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 75
They bowed low to Lionel, and the gravest one said: "Sire, your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, the King of this country, is dead, and now you have got to come and be King."
Who acts: gentlemen, gravest one, you · What happens: bow, say, be, get, come · To what, where: Lionel, Sire, King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (gentlemen, gravest one, you), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 bowed | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Lionel | case |
| 5 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bowed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | gravest | grave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sire | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sire | punct |
| 14 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grandfather | punct |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grandfather | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 great | punct |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grandfather | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 great | punct |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grandfather | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 great | punct |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grandfather | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 great | punct |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grandfather | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 great | punct |
| 27 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Sire | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 King | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 King | det |
| 30 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 grandfather | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 country | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 country | det |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 King | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dead | punct |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 dead | cop |
| 36 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Sire | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 got | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 got | cc |
| 39 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 got | advmod |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 got | nsubj |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 got | aux |
| 42 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 come | mark |
| 44 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 got | xcomp |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 King | cc |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 King | cop |
| 47 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 come | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bowed | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | gentlemen = gentleman | Lionel | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to lionel=Pivot | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the gravest one | Sire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the gravest one not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | King | 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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