The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 125
He tried it by addition, simple and otherwise, and he tried it by mixed examples in vulgar fractions.
Who acts: Nigel · What happens: try, mix · 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 addition | case |
| 5 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 simple | punct |
| 7 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 addition | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 otherwise | cc |
| 9 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 7 simple | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tried | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tried | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 examples | case |
| 16 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 examples | amod |
| 17 | examples | example | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tried | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 fractions | case |
| 19 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fractions | amod |
| 20 | fractions | fraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 examples | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Nigel | piece | by addition | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | try | past | Nigel | piece | by mixed examples in vulgar fractions | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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