The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 17
I want to find out new things that nobody has thought of but me."
Who acts: I · What happens: want, find out, think · To what, where: new things
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 find | compound:prt |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 find | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | aux |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thought | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 me | cc |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find out not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | new things | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present · perfect · passive | new things | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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