The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 52
However popular the King might become during the week, the Dragon was sure to do something on Saturday to upset the people's loyalty.
Who acts: King, Dragon · What happens: become, be, do, upset · To what, where: something, loyalty
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 (King, 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 2 popular | advmod |
| 2 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 become | xcomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 become | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 become | aux |
| 6 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | during | during | ADP | _ | 9 week | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 become | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dragon | det |
| 12 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 become | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | xcomp |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Saturday | case |
| 19 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 upset | mark |
| 21 | upset | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 do | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 loyalty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 people | case |
| 25 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 upset | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | might | the King | week | popular property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | the Dragon | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the Dragon not said here | something | saturday | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | upset | to-infinitive | the Dragon not said here | the people's loyalty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus loyalty=Experiencer |
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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