The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 23
He never thought that the dragon himself might help them--but then that was an idea that would never have occurred to any boy.
Who acts: Jane, dragon, that, idea · What happens: not think, help, be, not occur · To what, where: George, idea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jane, dragon, that, idea), 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 | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 help | nsubj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 6 dragon | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 help | aux |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 idea | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 idea | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 idea | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 idea | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 idea | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 idea | det |
| 17 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 occurred | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 occurred | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 occurred | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 occurred | aux |
| 22 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 idea | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 boy | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 boy | det |
| 25 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 occurred | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past | Jane | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | might | the dragon Jane | George | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | a idea | then | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not occur | would · perfect | a idea | to any boy | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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