The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 281
And some people would have been afraid to trust him, but Johnnie and Tina were so happy on their wedding day that they could not believe any harm of anyone in the world.
Who acts: people, Johnnie · What happens: be, trust, not believe, harm · To what, where: Dragon, harm, anyone
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, Johnnie), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 afraid | cc |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 afraid | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 afraid | cop |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 trust | mark |
| 9 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 afraid | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 trust | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 happy | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 happy | cc |
| 13 | Johnnie | Johnnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 happy | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Tina | cc |
| 15 | Tina | Tina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Johnnie | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happy | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 happy | advmod |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 afraid | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 day | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 day | compound |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 happy | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 believe | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 believe | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 believe | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 believe | advmod |
| 27 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 day | acl |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 harm | det |
| 29 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 believe | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 anyone | case |
| 31 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 harm | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 anyone | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | some people | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trust | to-infinitive | some people not said here | Dragon | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Johnnie and Tina | day | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not believe | could | people | any harm of anyone | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | harm | anyone | nom harm «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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