The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 137
He shook his fist at his family, as indeed he generally did whenever he met them, for he was not a King with pretty home manners.
Who acts: King · What happens: shake, do, meet, not be · To what, where: fist, family, crumbs
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 (King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fist | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 did | mark |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 did | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 12 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 13 did | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shook | parataxis |
| 14 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 met | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | nsubj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 did | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 King | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 King | case |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 King | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 King | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 King | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 manners | case |
| 26 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 manners | amod |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 manners | compound |
| 28 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 met | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | King | King's fist | King's family | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fist=Theme at family=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | do | past | King | generally, indeed property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | King | crumbs = crumb | with pretty home manners; whenever property | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme with manners=Instrument | |||
| 4 | not is | past | King | for a King | tree rules |
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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