The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 28
He was cutting his first tooth, and that is a very anxious time for any person--even for a Royal one.
Who acts: Guy, that · What happens: cut, be · To what, where: first tooth, anxious time
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 (Guy, that), 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 cutting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cutting | aux |
| 3 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 tooth | amod |
| 6 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cutting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 time | cc |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 anxious | advmod |
| 13 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cutting | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 person | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 person | det |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 one | punct |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 one | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 22 | Royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 one | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cutting | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cutting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past · progressive | Guy | Guy's first tooth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Product | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | a anxious time | for any person | 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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