The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 20
And the answer would be always the same:
Who acts: answer · What happens: be
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: who acts (answer), 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 | _ | 8 same | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 answer | det |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 same | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 same | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 same | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 same | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | the answer | always, same 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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