The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 23
When the next Saturday came around everyone was a little nervous, but the Red Dragon was pretty quiet that day and only ate an Orphanage.
Who acts: next Saturday, Red Dragon · What happens: come, be, eat · To what, where: everyone, Orphanage
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 (next Saturday, Red Dragon), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Saturday | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Saturday | amod |
| 4 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 nervous | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nervous | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nervous | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 quiet | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 quiet | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Dragon | det |
| 15 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Dragon | flat |
| 16 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 quiet | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 quiet | cop |
| 18 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 19 quiet | advmod |
| 19 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nervous | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quiet | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ate | cc |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 ate | advmod |
| 24 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 quiet | conj |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Orphanage | det |
| 26 | Orphanage | orphanage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ate | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the next Saturday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the next Saturday not said here | everyone | a little obl:unmarked; nervous property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | the Red Dragon | day | pretty, quiet property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | eat | past | the Red Dragon not said here | a Orphanage | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orphanage=Patient |
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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