The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 159
It took some time, and was not a comfortable occupation.
Who acts: It · What happens: take, not be · To what, where: comfortable occupation
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 (It), 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 | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 occupation | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 occupation | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 occupation | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 occupation | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 occupation | det |
| 10 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 occupation | amod |
| 11 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | a comfortable occupation | 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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