The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 99
I'm sure there hasn't been a King for some time."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not be · 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sure | advmod |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 King | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 King | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 King | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | there | time | sure property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not is a | present · perfect | I not said here | a 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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