The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 91

He had never expected to be a King any more than you have, so it was all quite new to him--so new that he had never even thought of it.

Who acts: King, you, two · What happens: not expect, be, have, not think · To what, where: King

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 (King, you, two), 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	4 expected	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 expected	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 expected	advmod
4	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 King	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 King	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 expected	xcomp
9	any	any	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 expected	advmod
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 have	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 more	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 new	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	20 new	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 new	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 new	cop
18	all	all	ADV	_	20 new	advmod
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 new	advmod
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 expected	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 new	obl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 new	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 new	advmod
25	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 new	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 thought	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thought	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 thought	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 thought	advmod
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 thought	advmod
31	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 new	advcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thought	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not expect	past · perfect · passive		King			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here	a King			tree rules
3	have	present	you				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	two		King	all, new property	tree rules
5	be		two not said here				tree rules
6	not think speech: other	past · perfect	King			of two	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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