The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 26

He had invented, all by himself, a very ingenious and new kind of lantern, made with a turnip and a tumbler, and when he took the candle out of Granny's bedroom candlestick to put in it, it gave quite a splendid light.

Who acts: boy, candle · What happens: invent, make, take, put, give · To what, where: ingenious kind, candle, bedroom candlestick, candlestick, splendid light

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, candle), 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	3 invented	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	aux
3	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 himself	punct
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 himself	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 invented	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kind	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 kind	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 ingenious	advmod
11	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kind	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 new	cc
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ingenious	conj
14	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invented	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 lantern	case
16	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kind	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 kind	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 turnip	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 turnip	det
21	turnip	turnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tumbler	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tumbler	det
24	tumbler	tumbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turnip	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 took	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 candle	det
31	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	37 candlestick	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 candlestick	case
34	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 candlestick	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Granny	case
36	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 candlestick	compound
37	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 put	mark
39	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 candlestick	acl
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 put	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 gave	punct
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 gave	nsubj
44	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 took	conj
45	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	48 light	det:predet
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 light	det
47	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 light	amod
48	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 gave	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 invented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	invent	past · perfect	boy			by boy	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	participle		a ingenious kind of lantern not said here		with a turnip and a tumbler	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	take	past	boy	the candle	Granny's bedroom candlestick		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent candle=Theme out candlestick=Initial_Location
4	put	to-infinitive	boy not said here		candlestick		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination
5	give	past	candle	quite splendid light			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

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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