The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 23

There always was some such person, because in Rotundia everybody was kind--except one.

Who acts: everybody · 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 (everybody), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 was	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kind	cop
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 person	det
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kind	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 kind	mark
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Rotundia	case
10	Rotundia	Rotundia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 everybody	compound
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 kind	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kind	cop
13	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
15	except	except	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 kind	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	everybody					except one; kind 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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