The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 251
That's how St. George cured his burns."
Who acts: That, George · What happens: be, cure, burn · To what, where: burns
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, George), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 how | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 how | cop |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 cured | advmod |
| 4 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 George | nmod:desc |
| 5 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cured | nsubj |
| 6 | cured | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 burns | nmod:poss |
| 8 | burns | burn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cured | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cured | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cure | past | George St. | George's burns | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer burn=Source | ||||
| 3 | burn | George | nom burn «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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