The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 162
The second described the splendid assistance rendered by the corporation.
Who acts: second · What happens: describe, render · To what, where: splendid assistance
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 (second), 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 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 described | nsubj |
| 3 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 assistance | det |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 assistance | amod |
| 6 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 described | obj |
| 7 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 assistance | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 corporation | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 corporation | det |
| 10 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rendered | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | past | the second | the splendid assistance | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | render | participle | the splendid assistance not said here | by the corporation | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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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