The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 104
George and Jane went so fast that they had not time to notice the scenery.
Who acts: George · What happens: go, have, notice · To what, where: scenery
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Jane | cc |
| 3 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 George | conj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 time | advmod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 notice | mark |
| 13 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 time | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 scenery | det |
| 15 | scenery | scenery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 notice | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | George and Jane | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | George | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | notice | to-infinitive | George not said here | the scenery | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer scenery=Stimulus |
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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