The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 12
This was why Sabrinetta was the first person in all the land to get a glimpse of the wonder.
Who acts: This, Sabrinetta · What happens: be, get, glimpse · To what, where: first person, land, glimpse, wonder
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Sabrinetta), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | Sabrinetta | Sabrinetta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 person | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 person | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 person | amod |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 why | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 land | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 person | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 land | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 glimpse | det |
| 16 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wonder | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wonder | det |
| 19 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glimpse | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Sabrinetta | the first person | all land | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Sabrinetta not said here | a glimpse of the wonder | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | glimpse | the wonder | nom glimpse «act 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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