The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 27
There were no fireworks that year on Guy Fawkes' Day, because the heir to the throne was not well.
Who acts: fireworks, heir · What happens: be, not be
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 (fireworks, heir), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 fireworks | det |
| 4 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 Day | nsubj |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Fawkes | compound |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Guy | case |
| 8 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 year | nmod |
| 9 | Fawkes | fawke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Day | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 Fawkes | case |
| 11 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fireworks | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 well | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 well | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heir | det |
| 15 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 well | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 throne | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 throne | det |
| 18 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heir | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 well | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 well | advmod |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 were | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no fireworks year Fawkes's Day | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | the heir to the throne | well 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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