The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 50
Tom had learned more at school than anyone else, because he wished to take a prize.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: learn, wish, take · To what, where: more, school, prize
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 (Tom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:216): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 learned | aux |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 learned | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learned | obl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 anyone | case |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 more | obl |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 8 anyone | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wished | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 wished | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wished | nsubj |
| 13 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 learned | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wished | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 prize | det |
| 17 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · perfect | Tom | more | school | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic | |||
| 2 | wish | past | Tom | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | a prize | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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