The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 59

It is not mentioned in all charts; but it is marked in the old chart I steer by, which was my father's father's before me, and his father's father's before him.

Who acts: I, old chart · What happens: not mention, mark, steer, be · To what, where: light, charts, old chart

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 (I, old chart), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mentioned	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mentioned	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 mentioned	advmod
4	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 charts	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 charts	det
7	charts	chart	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mentioned	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 marked	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 marked	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 marked	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 marked	aux:pass
12	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mentioned	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 chart	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chart	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chart	amod
16	chart	chart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marked	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 steer	nsubj
18	steer	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 chart	acl:relcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	18 steer	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 father	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 father	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 father	cop
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 father	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 father	case
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chart	conj
27	's	's	PART	_	26 father	case
28	before	before	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 marked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 him	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 him	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 father	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 father	case
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 him	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 father	case
37	before	before	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mentioned	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mentioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mention speech: other	present · passive		light	all charts	before skipper		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	mark	present · passive		light	the old chart and my father's father	before me		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in chart=Destination
3	steer	present	I	the old chart and my father's father not said here				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chart=Theme
4	is	past	the old chart and my father's father				's my father's father	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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