The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 81

Edmund had a watch: It had been given to him on his birthday two days before, and he had not yet had time to take it to pieces and see what made it go, so it was still going.

Who acts: Edmund, lantern, watch · What happens: have, give, not have, take, see, make · To what, where: watch, lantern, birthday, pieces · 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 (Edmund, lantern, watch), 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	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 watch	det
4	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 given	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 given	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 given	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 given	aux:pass
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 given	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 birthday	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 birthday	nmod:poss
14	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	obl
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 days	nummod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 before	obl:unmarked
17	before	before	ADV	_	9 given	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 had	advmod
23	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 had	advmod
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 given	parataxis
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 take	mark
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 time	acl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 pieces	case
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 take	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 take	conj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 made	nsubj
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 see	ccomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 made	obj
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 made	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 going	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	42 going	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 going	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 going	aux
41	still	still	ADV	_	42 going	advmod
42	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Edmund	a watch					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Patient
2	give	past · perfect · passive		watch	lantern	lantern's birthday		before property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient on birthday=Asset
3	not have	past · perfect	lantern				yet; time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	take	to-infinitive	lantern not said here	watch		pieces			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to piece=Destination
5	see	infinitive	lantern not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	make	past		watch					tree rules
7	go	infinitive	watch not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	go	past · progressive	watch				still		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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