The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 33
"He is the sworn foe of Dragons," said the Chancellor. "
Who acts: Chancellor · What happens: swear, be, say · To what, where: sworn foe · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Chancellor), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 foe | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 foe | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 foe | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foe | det |
| 5 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 foe | amod |
| 6 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Dragons | case |
| 8 | Dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 foe | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 foe | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 foe | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Chancellor | det |
| 13 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Chancellor | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Chancellor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear in a quote | participle | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Chancellor | the sworn foe | of Dragons | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Chancellor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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