The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 31
But he never noticed George and Jane, because they were frozen to his back.
Who acts: friend · What happens: not notice, freeze · To what, where: George
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 (friend), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 noticed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 noticed | advmod |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 noticed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Jane | cc |
| 7 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 George | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 frozen | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 frozen | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 frozen | aux:pass |
| 12 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 noticed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 frozen | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | past | friend | George and Jane | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer george=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | freeze | past · passive | George | to friend's back | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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