The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 10
For the gardener's boy meant, as soon as he was grown up, to be a general and a poet and a Prime Minister and an admiral and a civil engineer.
Who acts: boy · What happens: mean, grow up, be · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 meant | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gardener | det |
| 3 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 gardener | case |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meant | nsubj |
| 6 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 grown | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 grown | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grown | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grown | aux:pass |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 meant | ccomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 grown | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 general | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 general | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 general | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 general | det |
| 19 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meant | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 poet | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 poet | det |
| 22 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 general | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Minister | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Minister | det |
| 25 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 26 Minister | compound |
| 26 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 poet | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 admiral | cc |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 admiral | det |
| 29 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Minister | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 engineer | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 engineer | det |
| 32 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 engineer | amod |
| 33 | engineer | engineer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 poet | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | the gardener's boy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | grow up | past · passive | boy | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | general 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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