The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 236

And all the class said the same, for they had more sense than to argue with a person who carried a cane.

Who acts: class, Edmund, more sense, person · What happens: say, have, argue, carry · To what, where: same, more sense, cane · 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 (class, Edmund, more sense, person), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 class	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 had	case
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 sense	amod
13	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 argue	mark
15	to	to	PART	_	16 argue	mark
16	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 person	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 person	det
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 argue	obl
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 carried	nsubj
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 person	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cane	det
23	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	all class	the same		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent same=Topic
2	have	past	Edmund	more sense		tree rules
3	argue speech: disagree	to-infinitive	more sense not said here		with a person	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with person=Co-Agent
4	carry	past	a person	a cane		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=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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