The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 49
Then Uncle James came out onto the terrace of the palace, and he made the people a speech.
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: come out, make · To what, where: terrace, speech, people
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 (Uncle), 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 | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Uncle | flat |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 8 terrace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 terrace | det |
| 8 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 terrace | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 speech | det |
| 19 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Uncle | the terrace of the palace | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | make | past | uncle | a speech | the people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset people=Beneficiary speech=Product |
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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