The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 131
He had gotten into the habit of asking why at school, and the master had always found it trying.
Who acts: do, habit, master · What happens: get, ask, find, try · To what, where: habit, school, master
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 (do, habit, master), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gotten | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gotten | aux |
| 3 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 habit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 habit | det |
| 6 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gotten | obl |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 asking | mark |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 habit | acl |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 asking | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 school | case |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 master | det |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | aux |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 found | advmod |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gotten | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | obj |
| 20 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 found | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | do | the habit | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into habit=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the habit not said here | school | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | past · perfect · passive | the master | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try | gerund | the master not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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