The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 5
And his granny often added that he was the best of boys.
Who acts: boy · What happens: add, be · To what, where: granny
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 added | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 granny | nmod:poss |
| 3 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 added | obl |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 added | advmod |
| 5 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 best | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 best | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 best | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 best | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 added | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 boys | case |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 best | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | boy's granny | often property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | boy | of boys; good property | tree rules |
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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