The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 140
The junior secretary had never seen a dragon, and, what was more, he did not believe the Prince had ever seen a dragon either.
Who acts: junior secretary, secretary · What happens: not see, be, not believe, see · To what, where: dragon, Prince, more
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 (junior secretary, secretary), 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 | 3 secretary | det |
| 2 | junior | junior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 secretary | amod |
| 3 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 seen | advmod |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seen | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 more | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 more | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 more | cop |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 believe | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 believe | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 believe | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 believe | advmod |
| 19 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 more | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 believe | obj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 seen | advmod |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 seen | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seen | obj |
| 27 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 seen | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | the junior secretary | a dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not believe | past · do-support | secretary | the Prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect · passive | more | ever | either property | tree rules |
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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