The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 6
And by the time the nation had gotten dry again it was interested in the new invention for toasting muffins by electricity, and all the dragons were almost forgotten.
Who acts: nation · What happens: get, be, toast, forget · To what, where: nation, new invention, muffins, dragons
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 (nation), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gotten | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gotten | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nation | det |
| 6 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gotten | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gotten | aux |
| 8 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gotten | xcomp |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 gotten | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 interested | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 interested | cop |
| 13 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gotten | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 invention | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 invention | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 invention | amod |
| 17 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 interested | obl |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 toasting | mark |
| 19 | toasting | toast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 gotten | advcl |
| 20 | muffins | muffin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 toasting | obj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 electricity | case |
| 22 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 toasting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 forgotten | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 forgotten | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 dragons | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dragons | det |
| 27 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 forgotten | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 29 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 30 forgotten | advmod |
| 30 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gotten | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect · passive | the nation | again; time | dry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | nation | the new invention | interested property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | toast | gerund | muffins | by electricity | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent muffin=Patient | ||||
| 4 | forget | past · passive | all dragons | almost property | 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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