The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 50
"Oh, they're the surnames of some of the star families.
Who acts: George · What happens: be · To what, where: surnames
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 (George), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 surnames | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 surnames | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 surnames | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 surnames | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 surnames | det |
| 7 | surnames | surname | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 some | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 surnames | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 families | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 families | det |
| 12 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 families | compound |
| 13 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 surnames | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | George | the surnames | of some | 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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