The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 54
Everyone thought of the rabbit named Frederick, and groaned.
Who acts: Everyone · What happens: think, name, groan · To what, where: rabbit
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 (Everyone), 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rabbit | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rabbit | det |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 6 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rabbit | acl |
| 7 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 named | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 groaned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 groaned | cc |
| 10 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Everyone | of the rabbit | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | the rabbit not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | groan | past | Everyone not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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