The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 20

He played truant whenever he could, for he was a kindhearted boy, and could not bear to think of a master's time and labor being thrown away on a boy like himself--who did not wish to learn, only to find out--when there were so many worthy lads thirsting for instruction in geography and history and reading and ciphering, and Mr. Smiles's "Self-Help."

Who acts: waste, boy, time, many worthy lads · What happens: play, be, not bear, think, throw away, not wish · To what, where: kindhearted boy, Self Help, time, geography · 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 (waste, boy, time, many worthy lads), 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	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	truant	truant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 played	xcomp
4	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 could	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 could	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 played	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boy	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 boy	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 boy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 boy	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	kindhearted	kindhearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 played	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bear	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bear	cc
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bear	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 bear	advmod
18	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 played	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 think	mark
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bear	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 time	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 master	det
23	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 time	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 master	case
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 think	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 labor	cc
27	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 time	conj
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 thrown	aux:pass
29	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 time	acl
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 thrown	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 boy	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 boy	det
33	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 thrown	obl:agent
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 himself	case
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 thrown	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 wish	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 wish	nsubj
38	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 wish	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 wish	advmod
40	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 time	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 learn	mark
42	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 wish	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 find	punct
44	only	only	ADV	_	46 find	advmod
45	to	to	PART	_	46 find	mark
46	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 learn	ccomp
47	out	out	ADP	_	46 find	compound:prt
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	51 were	punct
49	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 were	advmod
50	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	51 were	expl
51	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 find	parataxis
52	so	so	ADV	_	53 many	advmod
53	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 lads	amod
54	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 lads	amod
55	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 were	nsubj
56	thirsting	thirst	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	55 lads	acl
57	for	for	ADP	_	58 instruction	case
58	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 thirsting	obl
59	in	in	ADP	_	60 geography	case
60	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 thirsting	obl
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 history	cc
62	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 geography	conj
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 reading	cc
64	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 geography	conj
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 ciphering	cc
66	ciphering	ciphering	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 reading	conj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 Help	punct
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 Help	cc
69	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	70 Smiles	nmod:desc
70	Smiles	Smiles	PROPN	Number=Sing	75 Help	nsubj
71	's	's	PART	_	70 Smiles	case
72	"	"	PUNCT	_	75 Help	punct
73	Self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 Help	compound
74	-	-	PUNCT	_	73 Self	punct
75	Help	Help	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 bear	obl
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 bear	punct
77	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	waste				truant property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	waste	a kindhearted boy				tree rules
3	not bear	could	waste not said here	Self Help				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	waste not said here			time		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	throw away	gerund · passive	a boy	a master's time and labor not said here			like waste; away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	not wish	past · do-support	a master's time and labor					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	a master's time and labor not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	find out	to-infinitive						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
9	be	past	many worthy lads		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	thirst	gerund	many worthy lads not said here		geography and history and reading and ciphering		for instruction	vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for instruction=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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