The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 292
And they all got rich without working, which is very wrong; but the dragon had never been to school, as you have, so he knew no better.
Who acts: people, dragon, you · What happens: get, work, be, have, not be, know · To what, where: better
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, dragon, you), 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 | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 working | mark |
| 7 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 got | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wrong | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wrong | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wrong | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 wrong | advmod |
| 12 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 working | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dragon | det |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 school | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 school | cop |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 school | case |
| 21 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knew | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 knew | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 knew | nsubj |
| 29 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | ccomp |
| 30 | no | no | ADV | _ | 31 better | advmod |
| 31 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 knew | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | people | rich property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | work | gerund | people not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the dragon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is | participle | to school | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | know | past | Dragon | better | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer good=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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