The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 85

And yet there seemed to be more dragons than ever.

What happens: seem, be · To what, where: more dragons

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 seemed	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 seemed	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 seemed	advmod
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 dragons	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 dragons	cop
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 dragons	amod
8	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seemed	xcomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 dragons	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past				there	yet		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		more dragons					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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