The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 12
The _Rotundia Times_ called the married couple "the happy pair."
Who acts: Rotundia Times · What happens: call · To what, where: married couple · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rotundia Times), 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 | 4 Times | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rotundia | punct |
| 3 | Rotundia | Rotundia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Times | compound |
| 4 | Times | Times | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Times | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 couple | det |
| 8 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 couple | amod |
| 9 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 pair | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pair | det |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pair | amod |
| 13 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 couple | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Times | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Times | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the Rotundia Times not said here | the married couple and the happy pair | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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