The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 20
Popular opinion held that the Soccer Players, being tough and hard, had disagreed with the Dragon so much that he had gone away to some place where they only play cats' cradle and games that do not make you hard and tough.
Who acts: Popular opinion, Soccer Players, opinion, Players, games · What happens: hold, be, disagree, go away, play, not make · To what, where: place, cradle, you
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 (Popular opinion, Soccer Players, opinion, Players), 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 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 opinion | amod |
| 2 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 tough | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Players | det |
| 6 | Soccer | Soccer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Players | compound |
| 7 | Players | Player | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 tough | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tough | punct |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tough | cop |
| 10 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 held | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hard | cc |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tough | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 disagreed | punct |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 disagreed | aux |
| 15 | disagreed | disagree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 held | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Dragon | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Dragon | det |
| 18 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 disagreed | obl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 gone | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 gone | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | aux |
| 24 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 disagreed | advcl |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 gone | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 place | det |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gone | obl |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 play | advmod |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 play | nsubj |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 play | advmod |
| 32 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 place | acl:relcl |
| 33 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 cradle | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 33 cats | case |
| 35 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 play | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 games | cc |
| 37 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 cradle | conj |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 make | nsubj |
| 39 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 make | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 make | advmod |
| 41 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 games | acl:relcl |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 make | obj |
| 43 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 make | xcomp |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 tough | cc |
| 45 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 hard | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Popular opinion | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the Soccer Players | tough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the Soccer Players not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | disagree | past · perfect | Popular opinion not said here | with the Dragon | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with dragon=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | go away | past · perfect | opinion | some place | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | play | present | Players = player | cats's cradle and games | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cradle=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not make | present · do-support | games | you | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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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