The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 71
No one cries in the Arctic regions for fear of being struck by the frost.
Who acts: one, frost · What happens: cry, strike · To what, where: Arctic regions, fear
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 (one, frost), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cries | nsubj |
| 3 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 regions | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 regions | det |
| 6 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 regions | amod |
| 7 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cries | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 fear | case |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cries | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 struck | mark |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 struck | aux:pass |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fear | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 frost | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 frost | det |
| 15 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | no one | the Arctic regions | for fear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in region=Location | |||
| 2 | strike | gerund · passive | the frost | fear not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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