The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 111
But this did not happen, and the children began to feel that they had not been so frightfully clever after all.
Who acts: this, children · What happens: not happen, begin, feel, not be
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, children), 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 | _ | 5 happen | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 happen | advmod |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 feel | mark |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 clever | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 clever | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 clever | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 clever | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 clever | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 clever | advmod |
| 19 | frightfully | frightfully | ADV | _ | 20 clever | advmod |
| 20 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feel | advcl |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 clever | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not happen | past · do-support | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the children | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | feel | to-infinitive | the children not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not is | past · perfect | children = child | after all | clever, frightfully 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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