The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 13

It was clever of the paper to think of calling them that--it is such a pretty and novel expression, and I think it is truer than many of the things you see in papers.

Who acts: pair, I, you · What happens: be, think, call, see · To what, where: couple, novel expression, things, papers · 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 (pair, I, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clever	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 paper	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 paper	det
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clever	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 think	mark
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 clever	advcl
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 calling	mark
10	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 think	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 calling	obj
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 calling	obj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 expression	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 expression	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 expression	cop
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 expression	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 expression	det
18	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	20 novel	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 novel	cc
20	novel	novel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 expression	amod
21	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clever	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 think	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 think	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 think	nsubj
25	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 truer	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 truer	cop
28	truer	true	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 think	ccomp
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 many	case
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 truer	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 things	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 things	det
33	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 many	nmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
35	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 things	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 papers	case
37	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 see	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	pair			of the paper; clever property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	pair not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	gerund	pair not said here	couple			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme that=Result
4	is a	present	pair	such novel expression			tree rules
5	think speech: other	present	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	pair			than many of the things; true property	tree rules
7	see	present	you	the things not said here	papers		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=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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