The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 21
When the collector saw that the moth was free, he seemed less angry than grieved.
Who acts: collector, moth · What happens: see, be, seem, grieve · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (collector, moth), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 collector | det |
| 3 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seemed | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 free | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moth | det |
| 7 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 free | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 free | cop |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 angry | advmod |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 grieved | mark |
| 16 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 angry | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the collector | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the moth | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | collector | angry property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grieve | participle | collector not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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