The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 30
Even the Crystal Palace, empty-headed as it is, felt that this was no time for Catherine-wheels.
Who acts: Palace, Crystal Palace, this · What happens: head, be, feel · To what, where: Crystal Palace, 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 (Palace, Crystal Palace, this), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 Palace | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Palace | det |
| 3 | Crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Palace | amod |
| 4 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 headed | punct |
| 6 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 headed | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 empty | punct |
| 8 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Palace | acl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 is | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 is | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 headed | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Palace | punct |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 time | mark |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 wheels | case |
| 20 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wheels | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Catherine | punct |
| 22 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 time | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | head | participle | the Crystal Palace not said here | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be | present | Palace | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | the Crystal Palace | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | no time | for Catherine wheels | 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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