The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 250

He does not argue quite so much, and he agreed to be apprenticed to a locksmith, so that he might one day be able to pick the lock of the cockatrice's front door--and learn some more of the things that other people don't know.

Who acts: boy, other people · What happens: not argue, agree, apprentice, be, pick, learn · To what, where: lock, more, things

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 (boy, other people), 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	4 argue	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 argue	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 argue	advmod
4	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 argue	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	4 argue	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 agreed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 agreed	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 agreed	nsubj
11	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 argue	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	14 apprenticed	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 apprenticed	aux:pass
14	apprenticed	apprentice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 agreed	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 locksmith	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 locksmith	det
17	locksmith	locksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 apprenticed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 able	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 able	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 able	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 able	aux
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 day	nummod
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 able	nsubj
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	cop
26	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 apprenticed	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 pick	mark
28	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lock	det
30	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pick	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	36 door	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cockatrice	det
33	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 door	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 cockatrice	case
35	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 door	amod
36	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lock	nmod
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 learn	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 learn	cc
39	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 argue	conj
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 more	det
41	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 learn	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 things	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 things	det
44	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 more	obl
45	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 know	obj
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 people	amod
47	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 know	nsubj
48	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 know	aux
49	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 know	advmod
50	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 things	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 argue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not argue speech: disagree	present · do-support	boy			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	agree speech: agree	past	boy			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	apprentice not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	boy not said here		to a locksmith	vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»
4	is	might	boy		able property	tree rules
5	pick	to-infinitive	boy not said here	the lock of the cockatrice's front door		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient
6	learn	infinitive	boy not said here	some more		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic
7	not know	present · do-support	other people	the things		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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