The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 51

Now, after more scores of years than you would like to add up on your slate, a certain sailor-boy sailed on the high seas with his uncle, who was a skilled skipper.

Who acts: you, certain sailor boy, uncle · What happens: like, add up, sail, be, score · To what, where: slate, high seas, skilled skipper, years

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 (you, certain sailor boy, uncle), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 like	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 scores	case
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 scores	amod
5	scores	score	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Now	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scores	nmod
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 like	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 add	mark
13	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 add	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 slate	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 slate	nmod:poss
17	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 add	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sailed	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 boy	det
20	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 boy	amod
21	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boy	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 sailor	punct
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sailed	nsubj
24	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 like	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 seas	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 seas	det
27	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seas	amod
28	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sailed	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 uncle	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 uncle	nmod:poss
31	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sailed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 skipper	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 skipper	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 skipper	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 skipper	det
36	skilled	skilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 skipper	amod
37	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 uncle	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	would	you			now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	add up speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		your slate			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	sail	past	a certain sailor boy		the high seas		with boy's uncle and a skilled skipper	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	boy's uncle and a skilled skipper	a skilled skipper				tree rules
5	score			years				nom score «cognition transitive»: of=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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