The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 51
The people thought of the dragon's tail and said, "Hear, hear."
Who acts: people · What happens: think, say, hear · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tail | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 dragon | case |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hear | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hear | punct |
| 13 | Hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hear | punct |
| 15 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Hear | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hear | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the people | of the dragon's tail | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the people not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | infinitive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | infinitive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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