The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 85
Everyone is kind to everyone in Rotundia, and Tom was not afraid of the dragon, although he had never spoken to one before.
Who acts: Everyone, Tom · What happens: be, not be, not speak · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Everyone, Tom), 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kind | cop |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 everyone | case |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 kind | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Rotundia | case |
| 7 | Rotundia | Rotundia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 everyone | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 afraid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 afraid | cc |
| 10 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 afraid | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 afraid | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 afraid | advmod |
| 13 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kind | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dragon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dragon | det |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 afraid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoken | punct |
| 18 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 spoken | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spoken | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spoken | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 spoken | advmod |
| 22 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 kind | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 spoken | obl |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 spoken | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Everyone | to everyone; kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | Tom | of the dragon; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other | past · perfect | Tom | one | before property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-Agent |
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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