The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 17
But they are greedy, grasping people, the kind who would take four helps of pudding, as likely as not, which neither Tom nor Mary Ann ever did.
Who acts: people, kind, Tom · What happens: be, grasp, take, help, do · To what, where: people, four
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 (people, kind, Tom), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 greedy | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 greedy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 greedy | cop |
| 4 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 helps | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grasping | punct |
| 6 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 greedy | advcl |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grasping | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kind | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kind | det |
| 10 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 helps | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 kind | acl:relcl |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pudding | case |
| 17 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 helps | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 likely | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 likely | advmod |
| 20 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 helps | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 not | case |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 likely | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 did | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 did | obj |
| 25 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 Tom | cc:preconj |
| 26 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 did | nsubj |
| 27 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 28 Mary | cc |
| 28 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Tom | conj |
| 29 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mary | flat |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 did | advmod |
| 31 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 likely | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | people | greedy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grasp | gerund | people not said here | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | would | the kind | four | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | present | the kind | of pudding | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | past | Tom nor Mary | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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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