The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 103
Boy, now your fate is sealed!"
Who acts: Boy, your · What happens: seal, fate · To what, where: fate
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, your), 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 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sealed | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sealed | advmod |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sealed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sealed | aux:pass |
| 7 | sealed | seal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Boy | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Boy | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seal | present · passive | Boy not said here | your fate | now | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | fate | your | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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