The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 207
I must take it out, and look through it more carefully."
Who acts: I · What happens: take out, look · To what, where: town
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 | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 take | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 look | cc |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | obl |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 carefully | advmod |
| 12 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 8 look | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | must | I | town | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | I not said here | through town; carefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through it=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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