The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 48
The dragon seemed very much struck by this remark.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: seem, strike
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 (dragon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 struck | advmod |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 remark | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 remark | det |
| 9 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the dragon | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | strike | participle | the dragon not said here | by this remark | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by remark=Location |
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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