The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 40
The things that were missed were nothing much at first--a few little elephants, a hippopotamus or two, and some giraffes, and things like that.
Who acts: things · What happens: miss, be · To what, where: things, nothing
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 (things), 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 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 missed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 missed | aux:pass |
| 5 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 things | acl:relcl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nothing | cop |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nothing | amod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 first | case |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 much | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 elephants | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 elephants | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 elephants | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 elephants | amod |
| 15 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nothing | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hippopotamus | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hippopotamus | det |
| 18 | hippopotamus | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nothing | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 two | cc |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 hippopotamus | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 giraffes | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 giraffes | cc |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 giraffes | det |
| 24 | giraffes | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nothing | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 things | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 things | cc |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nothing | conj |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 that | case |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 things | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past · passive | the things | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the things | nothing | 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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