The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 31
But when the Prince had cut his tooth, rejoicings were not only admissible but correct, and the eleventh of December was proclaimed firework day.
Who acts: cut rejoicings · What happens: cut, not be, be, proclaim · To what, where: Prince, eleventh
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 (cut rejoicings), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 admissible | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 cut | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cut | aux |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rejoicings | amod |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cut | punct |
| 10 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 admissible | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 admissible | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 admissible | advmod |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 admissible | advmod |
| 14 | admissible | admissible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 correct | cc |
| 16 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 admissible | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 proclaimed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 proclaimed | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eleventh | det |
| 20 | eleventh | eleventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 proclaimed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 December | case |
| 22 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 eleventh | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 proclaimed | aux:pass |
| 24 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 admissible | parataxis |
| 25 | firework | firework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 day | compound |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 proclaimed | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 admissible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past · perfect · passive | the Prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary tooth=Product | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | cut rejoicings | admissible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be speech: disagree | cut rejoicings not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | proclaim | past · passive | the eleventh of December | day | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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