The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 98
It is all for their own good_ on the black-board for Edmund to copy out seven hundred times, Edmund sneaked out of school and ran for his life across the town to warn his granny, but she was not at home.
Who acts: Lying, Edmund, granny · What happens: be, copy out, sneak out, run, warn, not be · To what, where: black board, school, town, granny, home
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 (Lying, Edmund, granny), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 _ | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 _ | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 _ | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 _ | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 _ | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 _ | amod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 _ | amod |
| 8 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 board | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 board | det |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 board | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 black | punct |
| 13 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 _ | nmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Edmund | case |
| 15 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 board | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 copy | mark |
| 17 | copy | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 _ | acl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 copy | compound:prt |
| 19 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hundred | compound |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 times | nummod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 copy | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sneaked | punct |
| 23 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sneaked | nsubj |
| 24 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 _ | parataxis |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 school | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 school | case |
| 27 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sneaked | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ran | cc |
| 29 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sneaked | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 life | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 life | nmod:poss |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ran | obl |
| 33 | across | across | ADP | _ | 35 town | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 town | det |
| 35 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ran | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 warn | mark |
| 37 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 ran | advcl |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 granny | nmod:poss |
| 39 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 warn | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 home | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 home | cc |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 home | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 home | cop |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 home | advmod |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 home | case |
| 46 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 _ | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Lying | the black board for Edmund | for liars's own good _ but home; all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | copy out | to-infinitive | time | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sneak out | past | Edmund | school | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Agent | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Edmund not said here | the town | for shower's life | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across town=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | Edmund not said here | shower's granny | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent granny=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | not is | past | granny | home | 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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