The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 100
When the King asked the Manticora where he would like to live he begged to be allowed to go back into the book. "
Who acts: King, Manticora · What happens: ask, like, live, beg, allow, go back · To what, where: book · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Manticora), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Manticora | det |
| 6 | Manticora | Manticora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 like | nsubj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 like | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | aux |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 live | mark |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 like | xcomp |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 begged | nsubj |
| 14 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 live | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 allowed | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 allowed | aux:pass |
| 17 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 begged | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 allowed | xcomp |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 book | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 book | det |
| 23 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like | would | the Manticora | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Manticora not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | Manticora | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the book | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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