The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 4

The people who did not like him said that he was the most tiresome boy that ever lived, but his grandmother and his other friends said that he had an inquiring mind.

Who acts: people, boy, tiresome boy, grandmother · What happens: not like, say, be, live, have, inquire · To what, where: boy, tiresome boy, inquiring mind · 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: who acts (people, boy, tiresome boy, grandmother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 like	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 people	acl:relcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	obj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 boy	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 boy	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 boy	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 tiresome	advmod
14	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lived	nsubj
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 lived	advmod
18	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 boy	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 grandmother	nmod:poss
22	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 friends	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 friends	nmod:poss
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 friends	amod
26	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 grandmother	conj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mind	det
32	inquiring	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 mind	amod
33	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	the people	boy		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	boy	the tiresome boy		tree rules
4	live	past	the tiresome boy		ever	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	boy's grandmother and boy's other friends			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	past	boy	a inquiring mind		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
7	inquire speech: other	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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