The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 217
Whatever may have been the poor dragon's other faults, she was an excellent mother.
Who acts: Cockatrice · What happens: be · To what, where: other faults, excellent mother
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 (Cockatrice), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Whatever | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 faults | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 faults | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dragon | amod |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 faults | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 dragon | case |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 faults | amod |
| 10 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Whatever | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whatever | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 mother | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 15 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mother | amod |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whatever | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whatever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive · perfect | the poor dragon's other faults | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Cockatrice | a excellent mother | 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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