The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 7
So of course the townspeople, whenever they wanted a horse shod or a shaft mended, went to the mayor.
Who acts: things, horse · What happens: want, shoe, mend, go · To what, where: horse, shaft, mayor
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 (things, horse), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 townspeople | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 of | fixed |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 townspeople | det |
| 5 | townspeople | townspeople | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wanted | punct |
| 7 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 wanted | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 townspeople | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wanted | obj |
| 12 | shod | shoe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 shaft | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shaft | det |
| 15 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 townspeople | conj |
| 16 | mended | mend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 shaft | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 townspeople | punct |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 mayor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mayor | det |
| 21 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | things = thing | a horse | whenever property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shoe not said to happen | participle | a horse not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mend | participle | a shaft not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | past | the mayor | of the townspeople or a shaft | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of townspeople=Initial_Location to mayor=Destination |
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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