The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 96
This master was not like some masters I know: He was very obstinate, and would not believe his own eyes if they told him anything different from what he had been saying before his eyes spoke.
Who acts: master, I, shower, eyes · What happens: not be, know, be, not believe, tell, say · To what, where: masters, own eyes, anything, shower · 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, I, shower, eyes), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 masters | det |
| 7 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 like | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 masters | acl:relcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 obstinate | punct |
| 11 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 obstinate | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 obstinate | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 obstinate | advmod |
| 14 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 like | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 believe | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 believe | cc |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 believe | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 believe | advmod |
| 19 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 obstinate | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 believe | iobj |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 told | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | nsubj |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 believe | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | iobj |
| 27 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 told | obj |
| 28 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 anything | amod |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 what | case |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 different | obl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 saying | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 saying | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 saying | aux |
| 34 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 what | acl:relcl |
| 35 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 38 spoke | mark |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 spoke | nsubj |
| 38 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 saying | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | this master | like property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | some masters not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | shower | obstinate property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not believe | would | shower not said here | shower's own eyes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | past | eyes = eye | anything | shower | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · progressive | shower | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | speak speech: other | past | shower's eyes | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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