The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 249

Edmund has never been quite the same boy since.

Who acts: Edmund · What happens: have, not be · To what, where: same boy

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 (Edmund), 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	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 boy	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 boy	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 boy	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
9	since	since	ADV	_	2 has	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Edmund					since property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	participle		the same boy					tree rules

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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