The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 77
So on the eighth day, at five minutes before noon, Nigel got ready.
Who acts: Nigel · What happens: get
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 minutes | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 minutes | case |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 minutes | nummod |
| 9 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 day | appos |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 noon | case |
| 11 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 minutes | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 13 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 got | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Nigel | day | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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