The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 42
Then one day a favorite rabbit of the Princess's, called Frederick, mysteriously disappeared, and then came a terrible morning when the Mexican lapdog was missing.
Who acts: Mexican lapdog · What happens: call, come, be · To what, where: favorite rabbit · 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 (Mexican lapdog), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 called | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rabbit | det |
| 5 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rabbit | amod |
| 6 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rabbit | nmod |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 disappeared | punct |
| 15 | mysteriously | mysteriously | ADV | _ | 16 disappeared | advmod |
| 16 | disappeared | disappeared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 came | advmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 disappeared | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 morning | det |
| 22 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 morning | amod |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 29 missing | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lapdog | det |
| 26 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lapdog | amod |
| 27 | lapdog | lapdog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 missing | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 missing | cop |
| 29 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 came | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle · passive | a favorite rabbit of the Princess | then; day | disappeared property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | past | then; morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Mexican lapdog | missing 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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