The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 156

It was not nearly so big as its mother; only about the size of a Baptist chapel.

Who acts: bed · What happens: not be

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 (bed), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 big	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 big	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 big	advmod
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 mother	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 big	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 size	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 size	advmod
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 size	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 size	det
14	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 big	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 chapel	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 chapel	det
17	Baptist	baptist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 chapel	amod
18	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 size	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	bed					as bed's mother; big, nearly property	tree rules

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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