The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 216
For they had been dissatisfied with the mayor for some time, and thought they would like a change.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, think, like · To what, where: change · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 dissatisfied | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dissatisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dissatisfied | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 dissatisfied | cop |
| 5 | dissatisfied | dissatisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 mayor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mayor | det |
| 8 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dissatisfied | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mayor | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dissatisfied | conj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 change | det |
| 19 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 like | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dissatisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | people | with the mayor for some time; dissatisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | people not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | like | would | people | a change | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot change=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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