The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 18
Lionel did his best to be a good King during the week, and the people were beginning to forgive him for letting the Dragon out of the book. "
Who acts: Lionel, people · What happens: do, be, begin, forgive, let · To what, where: best good King, King, Dragon, book
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 (Lionel, 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 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 King | nmod:poss |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 King | amod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 King | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 King | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 King | amod |
| 9 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 week | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 week | det |
| 12 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beginning | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beginning | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 beginning | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 beginning | aux |
| 18 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 did | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 forgive | mark |
| 20 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 beginning | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 forgive | obj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 letting | mark |
| 23 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 forgive | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Dragon | det |
| 25 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 letting | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 book | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 book | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 book | det |
| 29 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 letting | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 beginning | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Lionel | week | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | Lionel's best good King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | begin | past · progressive | the people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | forgive | to-infinitive | the people not said here | King | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | let | gerund | the people not said here | the Dragon | the book | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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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