The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 8
And when several other nice new laws were made and written down he went home and made mud-houses and was very happy.
Who acts: Lionel · What happens: make, write down, go, be · To what, where: several other nice new laws, mud houses
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), 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 | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laws | amod |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laws | amod |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laws | amod |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laws | amod |
| 7 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 11 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 went | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 written | compound:prt |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 went | conj |
| 18 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 houses | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 mud | punct |
| 20 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 happy | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 happy | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 happy | advmod |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 made | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | several other nice new laws | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | write down | participle | Lionel not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Lionel | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | Lionel not said here | mud houses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Lionel not said here | happy 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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