The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 148
He was the kind called _Draco centipedis_ in the learned books.
Who acts: drakling, kind · What happens: be, call, learn · To what, where: kind, Draco centipedis, learned books · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (drakling, kind), 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 | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 kind | acl |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 centipedis | punct |
| 7 | Draco | Draco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 centipedis | compound |
| 8 | centipedis | centipedis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obl |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 books | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 books | det |
| 12 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 books | amod |
| 13 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | drakling | the kind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the kind not said here | Draco centipedis | the learned books | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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