The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 164
When the subscription was finished there was a thousand pounds, and a committee was formed to settle what should be done with it.
Who acts: thousand pounds · What happens: finish, be, form, settle, do · To what, where: subscription, committee
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 (thousand pounds), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 subscription | det |
| 3 | subscription | subscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux:pass |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pounds | det |
| 9 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pounds | nummod |
| 10 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 was | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 formed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 formed | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 committee | det |
| 14 | committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 formed | aux:pass |
| 16 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 finished | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 settle | mark |
| 18 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 formed | advcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 done | obj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 done | aux:pass |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 settle | ccomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 done | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | the subscription | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | past | a thousand pounds | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | form | past · passive | a committee | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | settle | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | do | should · passive | with committee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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