The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 18
I did not anticipate this immediate extinction of the species."
Who acts: I · What happens: not anticipate, extinguish · To what, where: immediate extinction, species
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 anticipate | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 anticipate | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 anticipate | advmod |
| 4 | anticipate | anticipate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 extinction | det |
| 6 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 extinction | amod |
| 7 | extinction | extinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 anticipate | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 species | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 species | det |
| 10 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 extinction | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 anticipate | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 anticipate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not anticipate | past · do-support | I | this immediate extinction of the species | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extinction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | extinguish | the species | nom extinction «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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