The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 41
It was nothing much, as I say, but it made people feel uncomfortable.
Who acts: hippopotamus, I, people · What happens: be, say, make, feel · To what, where: nothing, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hippopotamus, I, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nothing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nothing | cop |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nothing | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 nothing | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feel | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hippopotamus | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | past | hippopotamus | people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | people not said here | uncomfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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