The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 24
And that means a lot of writing to the papers and things.
Who acts: that · What happens: mean · To what, where: lot
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 (that), 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 | _ | 3 means | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 writing | case |
| 7 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lot | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 papers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 papers | det |
| 10 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 writing | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 things | cc |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 papers | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | that | a lot of writing to the papers and things | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
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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