The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 25
He felt that it was his disobedience that had brought this trouble on the Parliament and the Orphanage and the Soccer Players, and he felt that it was his duty to try and do something.
Who acts: Lionel, Orphanage · What happens: feel, be, bring, try, do · To what, where: disobedience, duty, something
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, Orphanage), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 disobedience | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 disobedience | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 disobedience | cop |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 disobedience | nmod:poss |
| 7 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 disobedience | acl:relcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 trouble | det |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Parliament | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Parliament | det |
| 15 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 trouble | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Orphanage | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Orphanage | det |
| 18 | Orphanage | Orphanage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Parliament | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Players | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Players | det |
| 21 | Soccer | Soccer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Players | compound |
| 22 | Players | Player | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Parliament | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 felt | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 duty | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 duty | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 duty | cop |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 duty | nmod:poss |
| 31 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 felt | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 try | mark |
| 33 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 felt | advcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 do | cc |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 try | conj |
| 36 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 do | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Lionel | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Orphanage | Lionel's disobedience | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | Lionel's disobedience | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination trouble=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | Lionel | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | Orphanage | Lionel's duty | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | try | to-infinitive | Lionel not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | do | infinitive | Lionel not said here | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
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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