The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 72

He told the boys at school about the cockatrice and his wonderful true tales, and the boys liked the stories; but when he told the master he was caned for untruthfulness.

Who acts: trice, boys · What happens: tell, like, cane · To what, where: boys, school, stories, master, trice · 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 (trice, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:1587): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 cockatrice	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cockatrice	det
9	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tales	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tales	nmod:poss
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tales	amod
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tales	amod
14	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cockatrice	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 liked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 liked	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boys	det
18	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 liked	nsubj
19	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stories	det
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 liked	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 caned	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 caned	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 told	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 caned	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 master	det
28	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	iobj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 caned	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 caned	aux:pass
31	caned	cane	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 untruthfulness	case
33	untruthfulness	untruthfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 caned	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	trice		the boys	school	about the cockatrice and trice's wonderful true tales	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient about cockatrice=Topic
2	like	past	the boys	the stories				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot story=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	trice		the master			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
4	cane	past · passive		trice			for untruthfulness	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	tell		trice					nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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