The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 7
_, of course, means Clever Conqueror of the Dragon.
What happens: mean · To what, where: Clever Conqueror
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: 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 6 means | advmod |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 of | fixed |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 of | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Conqueror | amod |
| 8 | Conqueror | Conqueror | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Dragon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dragon | det |
| 11 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Conqueror | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Clever Conqueror of the Dragon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conqueror=Topic |
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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