The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 224
He thanked the cockatrice for his kindness, and got home just in time to have breakfast and get to school by nine.
Who acts: Germany · What happens: thank, get, have · To what, where: cockatrice, breakfast
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), 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 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cockatrice | det |
| 4 | cockatrice | cockatrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 kindness | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 time | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 17 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 get | cc |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 school | case |
| 21 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 nine | case |
| 23 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 get | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Germany | the cockatrice | for Germany's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent cockatrice=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 2 | get | past | time | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | breakfast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | |||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | to school result; by nine | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to school=Result |
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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