The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 37

But the last died hundreds of years ago--worse luck!"

Who acts: last · What happens: die · To what, where: hundreds

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 (last), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 died	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 last	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hundreds	nmod
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 died	advmod
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 luck	punct
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 luck	amod
11	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 luck	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 luck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the last	hundreds of years				worse luck obl; ago property	tree rules

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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