The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 12
And now there were more moths than have ever been together in this world before, all settling on the sealskin dwarfs.
Who acts: more moths, all · What happens: be, have, settle · To what, where: world
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more moths, all), 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 | _ | 4 were | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 were | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 settling | advcl |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 moths | amod |
| 6 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | nsubj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 moths | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 together | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 together | cop |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 have | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 have | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 settling | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 settling | nsubj |
| 18 | settling | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 dwarfs | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dwarfs | det |
| 21 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dwarfs | compound |
| 22 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 settling | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 settling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | more moths | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | more moths not said here | this world | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is | participle | ever | together property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | settle | gerund | all | on the sealskin dwarfs | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on dwarf=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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