The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 78

This way was all very well in olden times--when there was only one dragon and one Princess; but now there were far more dragons than Princesses--although the Royal Family was a large one.

Who acts: way, Royal Family · What happens: be · To what, where: one dragon, more dragons, large 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 (way, Royal Family), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dragon	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dragon	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	9 times	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 all	fixed
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 times	case
8	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 times	amod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dragon	nsubj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 was	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dragon	cop
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 dragon	nummod
16	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Princess	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 Princess	nummod
19	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dragon	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 dragons	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 were	cc
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 were	advmod
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 were	expl
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dragons	cop
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 dragons	amod
27	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dragon	conj
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 Princesses	case
29	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 dragons	nmod
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 one	punct
31	although	although	SCONJ	_	38 one	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Family	det
33	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Family	amod
34	Family	Family	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 one	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 one	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 one	det
37	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 one	amod
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dragons	appos
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 dragon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this way	one dragon and one Princess and more dragons		tree rules
2	is a	past	this way not said here	more dragons	than Princesses	tree rules
3	is a	past	the Royal Family	a large one		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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