The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 95
He was a little sorry at first that he had not put on his best clothes, but he soon forgot to think about that.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, not put, forget, not think · To what, where: little sorry, best clothes
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), 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 | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sorry | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sorry | amod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 first | case |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 sorry | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 put | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 put | advmod |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sorry | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 clothes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 clothes | amod |
| 16 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forgot | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 forgot | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 forgot | nsubj |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 forgot | advmod |
| 21 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 think | mark |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 forgot | xcomp |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 think | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | King | a little sorry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not put | past · perfect | King | a little sorry not said here | King's best clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sorry=Theme on clothes=Destination | |||
| 3 | forget | past | King | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not think speech: other | to-infinitive | King not said here | about that | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about that=Topic |
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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