The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 108
He was the only person in his town who knew how to manage dragons; the people in the fairy tales don't count.
Who acts: Harry, town, people · What happens: be, know, manage, not count · To what, where: only person, town, dragons
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harry, town, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 person | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 person | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 person | amod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 town | nmod:poss |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 person | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 town | acl:relcl |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 manage | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 manage | mark |
| 13 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 knew | xcomp |
| 14 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 manage | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 count | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 count | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 tales | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tales | det |
| 20 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tales | compound |
| 21 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 people | nmod |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 count | aux |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 count | advmod |
| 24 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 person | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Harry | the only person | Harry's town | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | Harry's town | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | manage | to-infinitive | Harry's town not said here | dragons | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not count | present · do-support | the people in the fairy tales | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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