The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 71
But the smaller sizes were a perfect nuisance.
Who acts: smaller sizes · What happens: be · To what, where: perfect nuisance
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 (smaller sizes), 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 | _ | 8 nuisance | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sizes | det |
| 3 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 sizes | amod |
| 4 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nuisance | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 nuisance | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 nuisance | det |
| 7 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nuisance | amod |
| 8 | nuisance | nuisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 nuisance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the smaller sizes | a perfect nuisance | tree rules |
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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