The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 275
Now, when Johnnie had been mayor ten years or so he married Tina, and on their wedding morning they went to see the dragon.
Who acts: Johnnie, children · What happens: be, marry, go, see · To what, where: mayor, Tina, dragon
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, children), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 married | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 married | advmod |
| 4 | Johnnie | Johnnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mayor | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mayor | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 mayor | cop |
| 7 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 married | obl |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mayor | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 so | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 married | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 married | nsubj |
| 13 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Tina | Tina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 married | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 morning | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 morning | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 morning | compound |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 married | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 went | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | Johnnie | mayor | year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | marry | past | Johnnie | Tina | now | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tina=Patient | |||
| 3 | go | past | children = child | morning | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | the dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=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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