The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 17
And, indeed, soccer was not at all popular for some time afterward.
Who acts: soccer · What happens: not be · To what, where: all
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 (soccer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:103): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 popular | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 popular | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 popular | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | soccer | soccer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 popular | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 popular | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 popular | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 popular | obl |
| 10 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 popular | obl |
| 14 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 13 time | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 popular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | soccer | all | time | indeed, popular property | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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