The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 141

Though he had played truant so often, he knew one or two things that perhaps you don't know, though you have always been so good and gone to school regularly.

Who acts: fire, you · What happens: play, know, not know, be, go · To what, where: one, two things, school

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 (fire, you), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	4 played	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	aux
4	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 knew	advcl
5	truant	truant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 played	xcomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 often	advmod
7	often	often	ADV	_	4 played	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 knew	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 things	cc
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 things	nummod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 know	obj
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	20 know	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 know	advmod
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 things	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 good	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 good	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 good	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 good	aux
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 good	advmod
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 good	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 good	advmod
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knew	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gone	cc
30	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 good	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 school	case
32	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gone	obl
33	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	30 gone	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	past · perfect	fire			often, truant property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	past	fire	one or two things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	not know	present · do-support	you	two things		perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	is	present · perfect	you			always, good property	tree rules
5	go	participle	you not said here		school	regularly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

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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