The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 13

But of course nobody heard him except the Princess's uncle, and he was a magician, and accustomed to listening at doors.

Who acts: nobody, Rotundia · What happens: hear, be, accustom, listen · To what, where: Rotundia, magician

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody, Rotundia), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 heard	cc
2	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 heard	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 of	fixed
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obj
7	except	except	ADP	_	11 uncle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 uncle	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Princess	case
11	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 magician	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 magician	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 magician	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 magician	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 magician	det
17	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 accustomed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 accustomed	cc
20	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 heard	conj
21	to	to	SCONJ	_	22 listening	mark
22	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 accustomed	advcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 doors	case
24	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 listening	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	nobody	Rotundia	except the Princess's uncle	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	is a	past	Rotundia	a magician		tree rules
3	accustom	participle	nobody not said here			tree rules
4	listen	gerund	nobody not said here		at doors	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme

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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