The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 24
This is the tale of the wonders that befell on the evening of the eleventh of December, when they did what they were told not to do.
Who acts: This, wonders · What happens: be, befell, do, tell, not do · To what, where: tale, wonders · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, wonders), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tale | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tale | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wonders | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wonders | det |
| 7 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tale | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 befell | nsubj |
| 9 | befell | befell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wonders | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 evening | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 evening | det |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 befell | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 eleventh | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eleventh | det |
| 15 | eleventh | eleventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 evening | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 December | case |
| 17 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 eleventh | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 did | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 did | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tale | parataxis |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 told | obj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | aux:pass |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 did | ccomp |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 do | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 told | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the tale | of the wonders | tree rules | |||
| 2 | befell | present | the wonders | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | wonders = wonder | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | wonders = wonder | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not do not said to happen | to-infinitive | wonders = wonder not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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