The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 85
He sat down on the brass doorstep and waited till three o'clock.
Who acts: boy · What happens: sit down, wait · To what, where: brass doorstep
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 doorstep | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 doorstep | det |
| 6 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doorstep | compound |
| 7 | doorstep | doorstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 waited | cc |
| 9 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 10 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 o'clock | case |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 o'clock | nummod |
| 12 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waited | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | boy | the brass doorstep | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on doorstep=Location | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | boy not said here | till three o'clock | vn exist-47.1 «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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