The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 48
Then, of course, no one expects hippopotamuses to jump.
Who acts: one · What happens: expect, jump · 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 (one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 expects | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 8 expects | advmod |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 of | fixed |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 expects | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 expects | nsubj |
| 8 | expects | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | hippopotamuses | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 expects | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 jump | mark |
| 11 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hippopotamuses | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 expects | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present | no one | hippopotamuses | then | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hippopotamus=Theme | |||
| 2 | jump | to-infinitive | no one not said here | hippopotamuses not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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