The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 76

The master was ignorant and unbelieving: but I am told that some schoolmasters are not like that.

Who acts: master, schoolmasters · What happens: be, unbeliev, tell, not be · To what, where: I · 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 (master, schoolmasters), 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 master	det
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ignorant	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ignorant	cop
4	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 unbelieving	cc
6	unbelieving	unbeliev	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ignorant	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ignorant	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 that	mark
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 schoolmasters	det
14	schoolmasters	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 that	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 that	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 that	advmod
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 told	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ignorant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the master		ignorant property	tree rules
2	unbeliev	gerund	the master not said here			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present · passive		I		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	not is	present	some schoolmasters		like that	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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