The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 54
Now there is Something which is wiser than all the world--and it knows when people are worthy to be Princes.
Who acts: Something, world, people · What happens: be, know · To what, where: Princes
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 (Something, world, people), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wiser | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wiser | cop |
| 7 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 Something | amod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 world | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wiser | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 knows | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knows | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knows | nsubj |
| 15 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 is | conj |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 worthy | mark |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 worthy | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 worthy | cop |
| 19 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knows | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 Princes | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 Princes | cop |
| 22 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 worthy | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | Something | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | than all world; wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | present | world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | people | worthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | people not said here | Princes | 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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