The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 124
So John went home again, and told his wife some of the tale.
Who acts: John · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: some, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 told | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tale | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tale | det |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 some | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | John | again | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | John not said here | some | John's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient some=Topic |
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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