The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 251
But he is quite an old man now, and he hasn't gotten that door open yet!
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, not get · To what, where: old man
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 man | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 man | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 man | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 man | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gotten | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gotten | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gotten | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gotten | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 gotten | advmod |
| 14 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 man | acl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 open | mark |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 open | compound |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gotten | xcomp |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 gotten | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | boy | a old man | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not get | present · perfect | boy | a old man not said here | yet | open property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=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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