The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 28
But the day after he got up very early and took the lunch Granny had ready for him to take to school--two boiled eggs and an apple turnover--and he took his lantern and went off as straight as a dart to the mountains to explore the caves.
Who acts: boy, Granny · What happens: get up, take, have, boil, go off, explore · To what, where: lunch, lantern, caves
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, Granny), 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 | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 early | advmod |
| 9 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 got | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lunch | det |
| 13 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | parataxis |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 had | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ready | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 school | case |
| 22 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 eggs | punct |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 eggs | nummod |
| 25 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 eggs | amod |
| 26 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 school | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 turnover | cc |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 turnover | det |
| 29 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turnover | compound |
| 30 | turnover | turnover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 school | conj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 took | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 took | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | nsubj |
| 34 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | parataxis |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 lantern | nmod:poss |
| 36 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 took | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 went | cc |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 took | conj |
| 39 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 went | compound:prt |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 straight | advmod |
| 41 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 44 dart | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 dart | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 dart | det |
| 44 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 mountains | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 mountains | det |
| 47 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 went | obl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 explore | mark |
| 49 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 went | advcl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 caves | det |
| 51 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 explore | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | boy | day | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | take | past | boy not said here | the lunch | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Granny | ready property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | boy | to school and two boiled eggs and a apple turnover result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to school=Result | ||||
| 5 | boil | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | take | past | boy | boy's lantern | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go off | past | boy not said here | as a dart; to the mountains | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | explore | to-infinitive | boy not said here | the caves | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent cave=Location |
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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