The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 13

She loved him very much, in spite of his inquiring mind, and hardly scolded him at all when he frizzled up her tortoiseshell comb in his anxiety to find out whether it was made of real tortoiseshell or of something that would burn.

Who acts: Cockatrice, boy · What happens: love, scold, frizzle up, find out, make, burn · To what, where: boy, spite, all, tortoiseshell comb, anxiety, mind

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 (Cockatrice, boy), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 loved	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spite	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 spite	case
8	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 mind	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mind	nmod:poss
11	inquiring	inquiring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mind	amod
12	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spite	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 scolded	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 scolded	cc
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	16 scolded	advmod
16	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loved	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 scolded	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 scolded	obl
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 frizzled	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 frizzled	nsubj
22	frizzled	frizzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 scolded	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 frizzled	compound:prt
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 comb	nmod:poss
25	tortoiseshell	tortoiseshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 comb	compound
26	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 frizzled	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 anxiety	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 anxiety	nmod:poss
29	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 frizzled	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 find	mark
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 frizzled	advcl
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 find	compound:prt
33	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	36 made	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 made	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 made	aux:pass
36	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 find	advcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 tortoiseshell	case
38	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tortoiseshell	amod
39	tortoiseshell	tortoiseshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 made	obl
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 something	cc
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 something	case
42	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 tortoiseshell	conj
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 burn	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 burn	aux
45	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 something	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past	Cockatrice	boy	spite of boy's inquiring mind		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	scold	past		boy	all	hardly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	frizzle up	past	boy	Cockatrice's tortoiseshell comb	boy's anxiety		tree rules
4	find out	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	make	past · passive		mind		of real tortoiseshell	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
6	burn	would					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	spite			boy's inquiring mind			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
8	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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