The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 72
So that these people had never seen anyone cry before.
Who acts: people, anyone · What happens: not see, cry · To what, where: anyone
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 (people, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:761): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 seen | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 seen | advmod |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 seen | obj |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | xcomp |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 cry | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | this people | anyone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | infinitive | anyone not said here | before property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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