The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 242

This will show you what a prejudiced and ignorant man Edmund's master was--how different from the revered Head of the nice school where your good parents are kind enough to send you.

Who acts: This, good parents · What happens: show, prejudice, be, revere, send · To what, where: you, revered Head · 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 (This, good parents), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 show	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 show	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 different	nsubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
7	prejudiced	prejudice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 man	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ignorant	cc
9	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prejudiced	conj
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 different	nsubj
11	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 master	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Edmund	case
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	appos
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 different	cop
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 different	punct
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 different	advmod
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 show	ccomp
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 Head	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Head	det
20	revered	revere	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 Head	amod
21	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 different	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 school	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 school	det
24	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 school	amod
25	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Head	nmod
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 kind	advmod
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 parents	nmod:poss
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 parents	amod
29	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 kind	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 kind	cop
31	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 school	acl:relcl
32	enough	enough	ADV	_	31 kind	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 send	mark
34	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 kind	xcomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 send	iobj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	future	This	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	prejudice	participle					tree rules
3	is	past			the revered Head of the nice school	different property	tree rules
4	revere	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	your good parents			enough, kind property	tree rules
6	send	to-infinitive	your good parents not said here	you			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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