The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 223

He was a kindhearted boy, as you have guessed, and he was glad to think that dragon and drakling would now have plenty to eat of their favorite food, forever and ever.

Who acts: Germany, you, dragon · What happens: be, guess, think, have, eat · To what, where: kindhearted boy, plenty · 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 (Germany, you, dragon), 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	5 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	kindhearted	kindhearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guessed	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 guessed	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 guessed	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 guessed	aux
10	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 boy	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 glad	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 glad	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 glad	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 glad	cop
15	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 guessed	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 think	mark
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 glad	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 have	mark
19	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drakling	cc
21	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dragon	conj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 think	ccomp
25	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 eat	mark
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 plenty	acl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 food	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 food	nmod:poss
30	favorite	favorite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 food	amod
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 forever	punct
33	forever	forever	ADV	_	27 eat	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ever	cc
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 forever	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Germany	a kindhearted boy			tree rules
2	guess	present · perfect	you	a kindhearted boy not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
3	is	past	Germany			glad property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Germany not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	would	dragon and drakling	plenty	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
6	eat	to-infinitive	dragon and drakling not said here	plenty not said here		of dragons's favorite food; forever property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of food=Source

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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