The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 53
And he was as good a boy as you would find in a month of Sundays, and worthy to be a Prince.
Who acts: boy, you · What happens: be, find · To what, where: boy, Prince
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 (boy, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 good | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | nsubj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 boy | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 month | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 month | det |
| 14 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sundays | case |
| 16 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 month | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 worthy | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 worthy | cc |
| 19 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 good | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 Prince | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Prince | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Prince | det |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 worthy | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | would | you | a boy not said here | month | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic | |||
| 3 | be | boy not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | boy not said here | a Prince | tree rules |
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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