The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 74
He made sure of this by the ship's chronometer, which he had thoughtfully brought with him.
Who acts: Nigel · What happens: make, bring · To what, where: chronometer
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sure | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 chronometer | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chronometer | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 10 | chronometer | chronometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | aux |
| 15 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 16 brought | advmod |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 chronometer | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Nigel | by the ship's chronometer; sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the ship's chronometer | with Nigel; thoughtfully property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
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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