The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 45
For the griffin had been artificially made by the King-enchanter, and the two halves had never really got used to each other.
Who acts: King enchanter, two halves · What happens: make, have, not use
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 (King enchanter, two halves), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 griffin | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 griffin | det |
| 3 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | artificially | artificially | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 enchanter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 enchanter | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 enchanter | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 King | punct |
| 12 | enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 halves | det |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 halves | nummod |
| 17 | halves | half | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 used | advmod |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 used | advmod |
| 21 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 used | aux:pass |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 had | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 each | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 22 used | obl |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 each | fixed |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | the King enchanter | for the griffin; artificially property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for griffin=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the two halves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not use | past · passive | the two halves not said here | to each | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
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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