The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 122

He tried it by practice and the unitary method, by multiplication, and by rule-of-three-and-three-quarters.

Who acts: Nigel · What happens: try · To what, where: piece

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nigel), 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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 practice	case
5	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tried	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 method	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 method	det
8	unitary	unitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 method	amod
9	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 practice	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 multiplication	punct
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 multiplication	case
12	multiplication	multiplication	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 practice	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 quarters	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 quarters	cc
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 rule	case
16	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 quarters	obl
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 quarters	punct
18	of	of	ADP	_	26 quarters	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 of	punct
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 quarters	nummod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 quarters	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 quarters	cc
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 quarters	nummod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 three	punct
26	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tried	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Nigel	piece				by practice and the unitary method and multiplication; of three three quarters	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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