The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 138

Now this was exactly the right way to manage Edmund, only no one had ever thought of trying to do it before.

Who acts: this · What happens: be, manage, think, try, do · To what, where: right way, Edmund, one, way

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 (this), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 way	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 way	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 way	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 manage	mark
9	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	acl
10	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 manage	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thought	aux
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 thought	advmod
17	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 way	conj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 trying	mark
19	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 thought	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 trying	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 do	obj
23	before	before	ADV	_	21 do	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	the right way	now	exactly property	tree rules
2	manage	to-infinitive		Edmund			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edmund=Theme
3	think speech: other	past · perfect · passive		no one	ever		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	try	gerund					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive		way		before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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