The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 22

This was the only order John had had that week.

Who acts: This, John · What happens: be, have · To what, where: only order

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 (This, John), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 order	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 order	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 order	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 order	amod
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 order	acl:relcl
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 order	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	the only order					tree rules
2	have	past · perfect	John	the only order not said here			week		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=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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