The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 127
Then he tried to do the sum by algebra, by simple and by quadratic equations, by trigonometry, by logarithms, and by conic sections.
Who acts: Nigel · What happens: try, do · To what, where: sum
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sum | det |
| 7 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 algebra | case |
| 9 | algebra | algebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 equations | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 equations | case |
| 12 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 equations | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 equations | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 equations | case |
| 15 | quadratic | quadratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 equations | amod |
| 16 | equations | equation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trigonometry | punct |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 trigonometry | case |
| 19 | trigonometry | trigonometry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 equations | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 logarithms | punct |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 logarithms | case |
| 22 | logarithms | logarithm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 equations | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sections | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sections | cc |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 sections | case |
| 26 | conic | conic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sections | amod |
| 27 | sections | section | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tried | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Nigel | then | by conic sections | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nigel not said here | the sum | by algebra; by simple quadratic equations and trigonometry and logarithms | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=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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