The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 73
And every day this happened, but every day it was five minutes earlier than it had been the day before.
Who acts: this, tide · What happens: happen, be
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 (this, tide), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:972): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 happened | cc |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 earlier | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 earlier | cc |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 earlier | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 earlier | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 earlier | cop |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 minutes | nummod |
| 13 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 earlier | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 happened | conj |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 been | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 been | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 been | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 earlier | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 been | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 day | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | this | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tide | day; minute | early 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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