The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 261
And the people, who were weary of Prince Tiresome and his hippopotamuses, hailed Sabrinetta and her husband as rightful Sovereigns of the land.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, hail · To what, where: Sabrinetta
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 (people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hailed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hailed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 weary | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 weary | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 weary | cop |
| 7 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Tiresome | case |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tiresome | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Tiresome | Tiresome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 weary | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hippopotamuses | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hippopotamuses | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hippopotamuses | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Tiresome | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 people | punct |
| 15 | hailed | hail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Sabrinetta | Sabrinetta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hailed | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 husband | cc |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Sabrinetta | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Sovereigns | case |
| 21 | rightful | rightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Sovereigns | amod |
| 22 | Sovereigns | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hailed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 land | det |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Sovereigns | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 hailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the people | of Tiresome Prince and Prince's hippopotamuses; weary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hail | past | the people | Sabrinetta and Tiresome's husband | as rightful Sovereigns of the land | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent sabrinetta=Theme as sovereign=Attribute |
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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