The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 97
So while the master was writing _Lying is very wrong, and liars must be caned.
Who acts: master · What happens: write, be, cane · To what, where: Lying, liars
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 wrong | advmod |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 writing | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 master | det |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 writing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 writing | aux |
| 6 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wrong | advcl |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lying | punct |
| 8 | Lying | lying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 writing | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wrong | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 wrong | advmod |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caned | cc |
| 14 | liars | liar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 caned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 caned | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 caned | aux:pass |
| 17 | caned | cane | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wrong | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · progressive | the master | Lying | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lying=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cane | must · passive | liars | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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