The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 129
He got an answer every time, it is true, but it was always a different one, and he could not feel sure which answer was right.
Who acts: Nigel, answer · What happens: get, be, not feel · To what, where: answer, different one
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 (Nigel, answer), 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 | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 true | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 true | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 true | cop |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 one | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 one | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | cop |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 one | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 true | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feel | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 feel | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 feel | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 feel | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 feel | advmod |
| 24 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 got | parataxis |
| 25 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feel | xcomp |
| 26 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 27 answer | det |
| 27 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 right | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 right | cop |
| 29 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sure | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Nigel | a answer | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | present | answer | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | answer | a different one | always property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not feel | could | Nigel | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | which answer | right property | 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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