The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 1
The King could not utter a word for several minutes.
Who acts: King · What happens: not utter · To what, where: word
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 utter | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 utter | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 utter | advmod |
| 5 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 utter | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 minutes | case |
| 9 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minutes | amod |
| 10 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 utter | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 utter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not utter speech: other | could | the King | a word | minute | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/10/1/