The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 9
The Queen knew at once by the King's tone that he was going to be disagreeable.
Who acts: Queen, King · What happens: know, go, be, intonate
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 (Queen, King), 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 | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 knew | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 tone | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tone | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 knew | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 disagreeable | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 disagreeable | cop |
| 17 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 going | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Queen | by the King's tone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | King | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | King not said here | disagreeable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | intonate | the King | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=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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