The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 49
But no one told the story of the deliverer who was to come.
Who acts: one, deliverer · What happens: tell, come · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one, deliverer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 deliverer | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 deliverer | det |
| 9 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 come | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 deliverer | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | no one | the story of the deliverer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the deliverer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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