The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 291
Indeed, everyone was rich, and there were no more poor people in the town.
Who acts: everyone, poor people · What happens: be
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 (everyone, poor 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 rich | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 rich | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | cop |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 were | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 were | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | conj |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 poor | advmod |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 were | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 people | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everyone | indeed, rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | poor people in the town | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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