The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 35
And the dragon's laugh was not a merry one.
Who acts: laugh, dragon · What happens: not be, laugh · To what, where: merry one
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 (laugh, dragon), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 one | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laugh | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dragon | case |
| 5 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 one | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the dragon's laugh | a merry one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | the dragon | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=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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