The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 11
Meanwhile, he was top of all his classes at school, and tip-top of the geography class.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be
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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 top | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 top | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 top | cop |
| 5 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 classes | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 classes | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 classes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | classes | class | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 top | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 school | case |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 classes | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 top | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 top | cc |
| 14 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 tip | punct |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 classes | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 class | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 class | det |
| 19 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 class | compound |
| 20 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 top | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy | of boy's classes at school; meanwhile, top 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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