The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 5

So he hastily worked the sum backward in decimals and equations and conic sections, and all the rules he could think of.

Who acts: R · What happens: work, think · To what, where: sum, decimals, rules

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 (R), 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	_	4 worked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worked	nsubj
3	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	4 worked	advmod
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sum	det
6	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	obj
7	backward	backward	ADV	_	4 worked	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 decimals	case
9	decimals	decimal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worked	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 equations	cc
11	equations	equation	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 decimals	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sections	cc
13	conic	conic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sections	amod
14	sections	section	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 decimals	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rules	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rules	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 rules	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rules	det
19	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worked	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 think	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 think	aux
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 rules	acl:relcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 think	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	R	the sum		decimals and equations and conic sections		backward, hastily property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent sum=Material
2	think speech: other	could	R	all rules not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rule=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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