The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 161
The first poem dealt with the noble conduct of the mayor in arranging to have the dragon tied up.
Who acts: mayor · What happens: deal, arrange, have, tie up, conduct · To what, where: first poem, dragon, mayor
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 (mayor), 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 | 3 poem | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 poem | amod |
| 3 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | dealt | deal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 poem | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 conduct | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 conduct | det |
| 7 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 conduct | amod |
| 8 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dealt | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mayor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mayor | det |
| 11 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 conduct | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 arranging | mark |
| 13 | arranging | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 mayor | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 arranging | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dragon | det |
| 17 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 dragon | acl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 tied | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | participle | the first poem not said here | with the noble conduct of the mayor | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with conduct=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrange | gerund | the mayor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | the mayor not said here | the dragon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tie up | participle | the dragon not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | conduct | the mayor | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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