The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 269
The Prince keeps no hippopotamuses, and is consequently very popular.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: hippopotamuses
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 (Prince), 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 | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 hippopotamuses | det |
| 5 | hippopotamuses | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keeps | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 popular | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 popular | cc |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 popular | cop |
| 9 | consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 11 popular | advmod |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 popular | advmod |
| 11 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 keeps | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the Prince | no hippopotamuses | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hippopotamus=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Prince not said here | consequently, popular 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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