The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 36
The ones done at the shops do not shine and sparkle, because they mix flour with the icing sugar.
Who acts: ones, shops · What happens: do, not shine, sparkle, mix · To what, where: ones, shops, flour
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 (ones, shops), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ones | det |
| 2 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shine | nsubj |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ones | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 shops | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shops | det |
| 6 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 done | obl |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shine | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 shine | advmod |
| 9 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sparkle | cc |
| 11 | sparkle | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shine | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mix | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 mix | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mix | nsubj |
| 15 | mix | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shine | conj |
| 16 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mix | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sugar | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sugar | det |
| 19 | icing | icing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sugar | compound |
| 20 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mix | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | the ones not said here | the shops | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not shine | present · do-support | the ones | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sparkle | infinitive | the ones not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mix | present | shops = shop | flour | with the icing sugar | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent flour=Patient with sugar=Co-Patient |
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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