The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 238
The master pointed to the map on the wall.
What happens: point · To what, where: master, map
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 master | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 map | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 map | det |
| 6 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pointed | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 map | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 master | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | participle | the master not said here | the map on the wall | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to map=Recipient |
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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