The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 104

He was a strange man; a very good King he was, but he had his faults--he was fond of books.

Who acts: death · What happens: be, have, fault · To what, where: strange man, faults

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death), 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	5 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 King	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 King	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 good	advmod
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 King	amod
10	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	appos
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 was	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 King	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 faults	nmod:poss
18	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 fond	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fond	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fond	cop
22	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 had	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 books	case
24	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fond	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	death	a strange man		tree rules
2	have	past	death	death's faults		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient
3	is	past	death		of books; fond property	tree rules
4	fault		death			nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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