The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 165
A third of it went to pay for a banquet to the mayor and corporation; another third was spent in buying a gold collar with a dragon on it for the mayor and gold medals with dragons on them for the corporation; and what was left went in committee expenses.
Who acts: third · What happens: go, pay, spend, buy, leave · To what, where: third, gold collar, committee expenses
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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 third | det |
| 2 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 third | nmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pay | mark |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 banquet | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 banquet | det |
| 10 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mayor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mayor | det |
| 13 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 corporation | cc |
| 15 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mayor | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 spent | punct |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 third | det |
| 18 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spent | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 spent | aux:pass |
| 20 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 went | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 buying | mark |
| 22 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 spent | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 collar | det |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 collar | compound |
| 25 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 buying | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 dragon | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dragon | det |
| 28 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 buying | obl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 dragon | nmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 mayor | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 mayor | det |
| 33 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 buying | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 medals | cc |
| 35 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 medals | compound |
| 36 | medals | medal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 mayor | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 dragons | case |
| 38 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 buying | obl |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 dragons | nmod |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 corporation | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 corporation | det |
| 43 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 buying | obl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 went | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 went | cc |
| 46 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 49 went | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 left | aux:pass |
| 48 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 what | acl:relcl |
| 49 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 expenses | case |
| 51 | committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 expenses | compound |
| 52 | expenses | expense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 went | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a third of committee | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | a third of committee not said here | for a banquet; to the mayor and corporation | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for banquet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spend | past · passive | another third | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 4 | buy | gerund | a gold collar | with a dragon on committee; for the mayor and gold medals; with dragons on medals; for the corporation | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent collar=Theme for mayor=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · passive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 6 | go | past | committee expenses | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in expense=Location |
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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