The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 21
All the same, Parliament met on the Saturday afternoon, a convenient time, for most of the Members would be free to attend, to consider the Dragon.
Who acts: Parliament · What happens: meet, be, attend, consider · To what, where: Dragon
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 (Parliament), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 same | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 same | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
| 5 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 same | parataxis |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 afternoon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 afternoon | det |
| 9 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 afternoon | compound |
| 10 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | convenient | convenient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 afternoon | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 free | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 most | case |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 free | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Members | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Members | det |
| 20 | Members | Member | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 most | nmod |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 free | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 free | cop |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 met | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 attend | mark |
| 25 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 free | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 consider | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 consider | mark |
| 28 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 attend | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Dragon | det |
| 30 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 consider | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Parliament | afternoon | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | would | for most of the Members; free property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | attend | to-infinitive | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | consider | to-infinitive | the Dragon | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dragon=Attribute |
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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