The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 163
And the third expressed the pride and joy of the poet in being permitted to sing such deeds, beside which the actions of St. George must appear quite commonplace to all with a feeling heart or a well-balanced brain.
Who acts: third, actions, George · What happens: express, permit, sing, appear, balance, pride · To what, where: pride, such deeds, commonplace, poet
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 (third, actions, George), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 expressed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expressed | nsubj |
| 4 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pride | det |
| 6 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expressed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 joy | cc |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pride | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 poet | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 poet | det |
| 11 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pride | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 permitted | mark |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 permitted | aux:pass |
| 14 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 expressed | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sing | mark |
| 16 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 permitted | xcomp |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deeds | amod |
| 18 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 appear | punct |
| 20 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 appear | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 actions | det |
| 23 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 appear | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 George | case |
| 25 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 George | nmod:desc |
| 26 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 actions | nmod |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 appear | aux |
| 28 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 permitted | parataxis |
| 29 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 30 commonplace | advmod |
| 30 | commonplace | commonplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 appear | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 all | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 appear | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 heart | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 heart | det |
| 35 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 heart | compound |
| 36 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 appear | obl |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 brain | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 brain | det |
| 39 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 balanced | advmod |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 well | punct |
| 41 | balanced | balance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 brain | amod |
| 42 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 heart | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past | the third | the pride of the poet and joy | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Theme | ||||
| 2 | permit | gerund · passive | the third not said here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express not said to happen | to-infinitive | the third not said here | such deeds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location deed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | appear | must | the actions of George St. | commonplace | to all; with a feeling heart or a balanced brain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside which=Location | |||
| 5 | balance | participle | well property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | pride | the poet | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | act | George St. | nom action «act intransitive»: of=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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