The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 173
He was great friends with Tina, the daughter of the whitesmith, who lived nearly opposite.
Who acts: Johnnie, whitesmith · What happens: be, live · To what, where: great friends
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 (Johnnie, whitesmith), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 friends | cop |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Tina | case |
| 6 | Tina | Tina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friends | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 daughter | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 daughter | det |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tina | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 whitesmith | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 whitesmith | det |
| 12 | whitesmith | whitesmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 whitesmith | acl:relcl |
| 16 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 17 opposite | advmod |
| 17 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lived | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Johnnie | great friends | with Tina | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | past | the whitesmith | opposite property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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