The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 142
So the junior secretary did not at all mind being left.
Who acts: junior secretary · What happens: not do, leave · To what, where: mind
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), 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 | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 secretary | det |
| 3 | junior | junior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 secretary | amod |
| 4 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 did | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 mind | det |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 left | aux:pass |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 did | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | the junior secretary | all mind | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund · passive | the junior secretary not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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