The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 51
The prize offered by the Lord Chief Schoolmaster was a _History of Rotundia_, beautifully bound, with the Royal arms on the back.
Who acts: prize · What happens: offer, be · To what, where: prize, History
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 (prize), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prize | det |
| 2 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 History | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 prize | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Chief | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Chief | det |
| 6 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Chief | compound |
| 7 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obl:agent |
| 8 | Schoolmaster | Schoolmaster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Chief | flat |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 History | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 History | det |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 History | punct |
| 12 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Rotundia | case |
| 14 | Rotundia | Rotundia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 History | nmod |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rotundia | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bound | punct |
| 17 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 18 bound | advmod |
| 18 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 History | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 arms | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 arms | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 arms | det |
| 22 | Royal | Royal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 arms | compound |
| 23 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bound | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 back | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 back | det |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arms | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 History | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | participle | the prize not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the prize | a History | of Rotundia | 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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