The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 52
Uncle James went on: "Something has happened to a gentle and defenseless member of our community.
Who acts: Uncle, Something · What happens: go on, happen · 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 (Uncle, Something), 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 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
| 7 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | aux |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 member | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 member | det |
| 12 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 member | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 defenseless | cc |
| 14 | defenseless | defenseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gentle | conj |
| 15 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happened | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 community | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 community | nmod:poss |
| 18 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 member | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Uncle | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | present · perfect | Something | to a gentle member of our community | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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