The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 21

Other boys played truant too, of course--and these went nutting or blackberrying or wild plum gathering, but Edmund never went on the side of the town where the green woods and hedges grew.

Who acts: Other boys, these, Edmund, green woods · What happens: play, go, nut, blackberry, gather, not go · To what, where: truant, side

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 (Other boys, these, Edmund, green woods), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boys	amod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	truant	truant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 played	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 course	punct
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 course	case
8	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obl
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	parataxis
13	nutting	nut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 went	xcomp
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 blackberrying	cc
15	blackberrying	blackberry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 nutting	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 gathering	cc
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plum	amod
18	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gathering	compound
19	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 went	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
22	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 went	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 went	advmod
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 side	det
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 town	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 town	det
30	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 side	nmod
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 grew	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 woods	det
33	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 woods	amod
34	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 grew	nsubj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hedges	cc
36	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 woods	conj
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 town	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	past	Other boys	truant		of course	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truant=Theme
2	go	past	these				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	nut	gerund	these not said here				vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	blackberry	gerund	these not said here				vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	gather	gerund	these not said here				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not go	past	Edmund		the side of the town		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location
7	grow	past	the green woods and hedges				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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