The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 7
And this pleased everyone except the ones who had always had too much.
Who acts: ones · What happens: have · To what, where: much
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 (ones), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 everyone | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 everyone | det |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 everyone | amod |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 5 | except | except | ADP | _ | 7 ones | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ones | det |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 everyone | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | aux |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 had | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 ones | acl:relcl |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 everyone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | the ones | much | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=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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