The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 256
Page 152, "chocked" changed to "choked" (nearly choked him)
What happens: chock, change, choke · To what, where: plenty · 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: 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 chocked | compound |
| 2 | 152 | 152 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 chocked | punct |
| 5 | chocked | chock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 chocked | punct |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 chocked | conj |
| 8 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 10 choked | mark |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 choked | punct |
| 10 | choked | choke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 changed | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 choked | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 choked | punct |
| 13 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 14 choked | advmod |
| 14 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chocked | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 choked | obj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 choked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chock in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | change | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | choke in a quote | participle | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | choke | past | plenty | nearly property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination |
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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