The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 172
The baby--named John, after his father, and called Johnnie for short--began presently to grow up.
Who acts: baby, father · What happens: name, call, begin, grow up · To what, where: father, Johnnie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby, father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 began | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 named | punct |
| 4 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 baby | acl |
| 5 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 named | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 father | punct |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 named | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 father | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Johnnie | Johnnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 short | case |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 called | xcomp |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 baby | punct |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 17 began | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 grow | mark |
| 20 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 grow | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | the baby not said here | John's father | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | past | John's father not said here | Johnnie | short property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent johnnie=Recipient | |||
| 3 | begin | past | the baby | presently property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | grow up | to-infinitive | the baby not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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