The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 9

But Edmund did not want to learn things: He wanted to find things out, which is quite different.

Who acts: Edmund, boy · What happens: not want, learn, want, find out, be · To what, where: things

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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 want	cc
2	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 learn	mark
7	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 learn	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 wanted	punct
10	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 find	mark
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 find	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	13 find	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 different	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 different	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 different	cop
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 different	advmod
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 find	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	Edmund			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	Edmund not said here	things		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	want	past	boy			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	find out not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here	things		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
5	is	present			different 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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