The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 25
He had one end of a cord tied to his arm.
Who acts: Nigel · What happens: have, tie · To what, where: one end, cord
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 end | nummod |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cord | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cord | det |
| 7 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cord | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 arm | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tied | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Nigel | one end of a cord | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tie | participle | a cord not said here | to Nigel's arm | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to arm=Co-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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