The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 58
It is a dragon like the one St. George killed."
Who acts: kitten, George · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: dragon, one
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 (kitten, George), 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 | 4 dragon | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dragon | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragon | nmod |
| 8 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 George | nmod:desc |
| 9 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | nsubj |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragon | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | kitten | a dragon | like the one | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill | past | George St. | the one not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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