The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 10

His inquiring mind led him to take clocks to pieces to see what made them go, to take locks off doors to see what made them stick.

Who acts: inquiring mind, boy, clocks, locks · What happens: lead, take, see, make, go, stick · To what, where: boy, clocks, pieces, locks, doors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inquiring mind, boy, clocks, locks), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mind	nmod:poss
2	inquiring	inquiring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mind	amod
3	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	nsubj
4	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 led	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 led	xcomp
8	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 pieces	case
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 see	ccomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	conj
20	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 take	obj
21	off	off	ADP	_	22 doors	case
22	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 take	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	advcl
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 see	ccomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	obj
28	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 made	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lead	past	boy's inquiring mind	boy		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
2	take	to-infinitive	boy not said here	clocks	pieces	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clock=Theme to piece=Destination
3	see	to-infinitive	boy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	make	past		clocks = clock		tree rules
5	go	infinitive	clocks = clock not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	take	to-infinitive	clocks = clock not said here	locks	doors	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent lock=Theme off door=Initial_Location
7	see	to-infinitive	clocks = clock not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	make	past		locks = lock		tree rules
9	stick	infinitive	locks = lock not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
10	mind		boy			nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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