The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 72
He never shed a tear, but he just went to sleep.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: not shed, go, sleep · To what, where: tear
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shed | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 shed | advmod |
| 3 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tear | det |
| 5 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sleep | mark |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shed | past | Prince | a tear | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Prince | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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