The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 160
The poems were very much more admired, especially by the mayor and corporation.
Who acts: poems · What happens: be
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 (poems), 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 poems | det |
| 2 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 admired | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 admired | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 admired | advmod |
| 7 | admired | admired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mayor | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 mayor | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 mayor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mayor | det |
| 12 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 admired | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 corporation | cc |
| 14 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mayor | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 admired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poems | admired 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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