The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 104
Looking at the wicked seal-faces all around them, George and Jane felt that their fate was sealed indeed.
Who acts: George, faces · What happens: look, feel, 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 (George, faces), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 felt | advcl |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 faces | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 faces | det |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 faces | amod |
| 5 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 faces | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 seal | punct |
| 7 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Looking | obl |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 them | advmod |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Looking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 12 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Jane | cc |
| 14 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 George | conj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 sealed | mark |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fate | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sealed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sealed | aux:pass |
| 20 | sealed | seal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 felt | ccomp |
| 21 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 20 sealed | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | George and Jane not said here | around faces = face; at the wicked seal faces | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | George and Jane | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seal | past · passive | faces's fate | indeed property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fate | faces = face | 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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