The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 2
Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Stranger | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 Stranger | cc |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Stranger | det |
| 6 | Purple | Purple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Stranger | compound |
| 7 | Stranger | Stranger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | conj |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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