The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 203
He went back into his old dungeon because he was a stranger in the town, and he did not know of any other respectable lodging.
Who acts: giant · What happens: go back, be, not know · To what, where: old dungeon, stranger, town
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 (giant), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 dungeon | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dungeon | nmod:poss |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dungeon | amod |
| 7 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 stranger | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stranger | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stranger | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stranger | det |
| 12 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stranger | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 know | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lodging | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 lodging | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lodging | amod |
| 25 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lodging | amod |
| 26 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 know | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | giant | giant's old dungeon | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | giant | a stranger | the town | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | giant | of any other respectable lodging | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of lodging=Stimulus |
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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