The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 90

So off went Lionel to be made a King.

What happens: go, make · To what, where: Lionel, King

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: 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	off	off	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 made	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past		Lionel				off property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive · passive		a King					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: king=Product

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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