The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 51
So now, when he and his pack went out, several people in the town whispered, "I wish the dragon would eat him"--which was very wrong of them, no doubt, but then he was such a very nasty Prince.
Who acts: Prince, several people, dragon · What happens: go out, whisper, wish, eat, be · To what, where: Prince, nasty Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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, several people, dragon), 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 | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 went | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 went | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pack | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pack | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 he | conj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 went | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whispered | punct |
| 12 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 whispered | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 people | nmod |
| 17 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wish | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 wish | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 wish | nsubj |
| 21 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 whispered | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dragon | det |
| 23 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eat | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 eat | aux |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wish | ccomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eat | obj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 eat | punct |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 wrong | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 wrong | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 wrong | cop |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 wrong | advmod |
| 32 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eat | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 wrong | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 doubt | punct |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 doubt | det |
| 37 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wrong | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Prince | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 Prince | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 Prince | advmod |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 Prince | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 Prince | cop |
| 43 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 Prince | det:predet |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 Prince | det |
| 45 | very | very | ADV | _ | 46 nasty | advmod |
| 46 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Prince | amod |
| 47 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 whispered | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Prince | now | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | several people in the town | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | several people in the town = people | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | would | the dragon | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | of people; wrong property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | Prince | such nasty Prince | then | 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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