The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 255
Page 23, "around" changed to "round" (round piece of land)
What happens: change · To what, where: Page around
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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 around | compound |
| 2 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 around | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 around | punct |
| 5 | around | around | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 around | punct |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 around | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 round | case |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 round | punct |
| 10 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 round | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 piece | punct |
| 13 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 piece | amod |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 round | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | Page around not said here | to round result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to round=Result |
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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