The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 17
He engaged a competent dragon to look after her, and also a respectable griffin whose birth and upbringing he knew all about.
Who acts: plan, birth · What happens: engage, look, know · To what, where: competent dragon
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 (plan, birth), 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 engaged | nsubj |
| 2 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 4 | competent | competent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dragon | amod |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 engaged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 engaged | advcl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 griffin | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 griffin | cc |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 griffin | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 griffin | det |
| 14 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 griffin | amod |
| 15 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 engaged | parataxis |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 birth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 upbringing | cc |
| 19 | upbringing | upbringing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 birth | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 griffin | acl:relcl |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 about | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 knew | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past | plan | a competent dragon | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | plan not said here | after dragon | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | past | birth and upbringing | about property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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