The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 147

And there were fifty pairs because the drakling took after his mother, and had a hundred feet--no more and no less.

Who acts: fifty pairs, drakling · What happens: be, take, have · To what, where: hundred feet

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 (fifty pairs, drakling), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 were	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	advcl
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pairs	nummod
5	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 took	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drakling	det
8	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 mother	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 feet	det
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 feet	nummod
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 more	punct
20	no	no	CCONJ	_	21 more	cc
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 took	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 less	cc
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 less	det
24	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 more	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	fifty pairs		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	the drakling			after drakling's mother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	the drakling not said here	a hundred feet			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

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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