The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 29
"Oh, something is to happen on her birthday?
Who acts: something · What happens: be · To what, where: birthday
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 (something), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 happen | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 happen | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 happen | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 happen | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 happen | mark |
| 7 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 birthday | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 10 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happen | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | something | Princess's birthday | happen 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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