The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 30
But Edmund did not care for any of these things just then.
Who acts: Edmund · What happens: not care
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 (Edmund), 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 | _ | 5 care | cc |
| 2 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 care | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 care | advmod |
| 5 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 any | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 care | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 things | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 things | det |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 any | nmod |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 then | advmod |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 care | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past · do-support | Edmund | then | for any | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for any=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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