The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 16
And wise people shook their heads and foretold a decline in the National Love of Sport.
Who acts: wise people · What happens: shake, foretell · To what, where: heads, decline, National Love
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 (wise people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shook | cc |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 foretold | cc |
| 8 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shook | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 decline | det |
| 10 | decline | decline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 foretold | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Love | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Love | det |
| 13 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Love | amod |
| 14 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 decline | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sport | case |
| 16 | Sport | Sport | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Love | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | wise people | people's heads | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | foretell | participle | wise people not said here | a decline | the National Love of Sport | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decline=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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