The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 93
At first Effie and her brother were quite pleased with the change in their lives.
Who acts: Effie · What happens: be
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 (Effie), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 pleased | obl |
| 3 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brother | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Effie | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pleased | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 pleased | advmod |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 change | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 change | det |
| 12 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pleased | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 lives | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lives | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 change | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Effie and Effie's brother | with the change in sizes's lives; pleased property | 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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