The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 44
The wicked King died, and some one else took his kingdom, and many things were changed in the world; but the island did not change, nor the Nine Whirlpools, nor the griffin, nor the dragon, nor the two stone ladies.
Who acts: wicked King, one, island · What happens: die, take, change, not change · To what, where: griffin, kingdom, many things, world, Nine Whirlpools
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 (wicked King, one, island), 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 | 3 King | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 8 one | advmod |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 died | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 changed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 changed | cc |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 changed | aux:pass |
| 18 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 took | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 changed | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 change | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 change | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 island | det |
| 25 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 change | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 change | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 change | advmod |
| 28 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 died | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Whirlpools | punct |
| 30 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 33 Whirlpools | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Whirlpools | det |
| 32 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 Whirlpools | nummod |
| 33 | Whirlpools | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 change | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 griffin | punct |
| 35 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 37 griffin | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 griffin | det |
| 37 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dragon | punct |
| 39 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 41 dragon | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 dragon | det |
| 41 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 ladies | punct |
| 43 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 47 ladies | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 ladies | det |
| 45 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 ladies | nummod |
| 46 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 ladies | compound |
| 47 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 died | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the wicked King | the griffin | the dragon obl; the two stone ladies obl | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | take | past | some one | King's kingdom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | past · passive | many things | the world | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not change | past · do-support | the island | the Nine Whirlpools | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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