The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 178
It _was_ a shame, or at least _I_ thought so.
Who acts: top tight, I · What happens: be, think · To what, where: shame, least
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 (top tight, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shame | nsubj |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 shame | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shame | cop |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 shame | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shame | det |
| 6 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 least | case |
| 10 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 thought | obl |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 least | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 I | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 shame | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 thought | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | top tight = tight | a shame | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | participle | I | least | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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