The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 32
All the people were most anxious to show their loyalty, and to enjoy themselves at the same time.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, show, enjoy · To what, where: loyalty, people
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 (people), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 people | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 anxious | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 anxious | cop |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 anxious | advmod |
| 6 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 show | mark |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 anxious | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 loyalty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 show | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 enjoy | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 enjoy | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 enjoy | mark |
| 14 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 anxious | parataxis |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 enjoy | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enjoy | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 anxious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all people | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | all people not said here | people's loyalty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent loyalty=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | people | time | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
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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