The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 113
He had found a rusty old tap, which seemed as though it had not been used for ages.
Who acts: Harry, rusty old tap · What happens: find, seem, not use · To what, where: rusty old tap, Rain
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 (Harry, rusty old tap), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tap | det |
| 5 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tap | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tap | amod |
| 7 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tap | acl:relcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 seemed | advmod |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 used | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 used | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 used | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 used | advmod |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 used | aux:pass |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 ages | case |
| 19 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 used | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect | Harry | a rusty old tap | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tap=Topic | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | a rusty old tap | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | not use | past · perfect · passive | Rain | for ages | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for age=Eventuality |
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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