The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 55
The pet elephant was called Fido, and the gardener's son took him away in his coat pocket.
Who acts: son · What happens: call, take away · To what, where: pet elephant, Tom, coat pocket · 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 (son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elephant | det |
| 2 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 elephant | compound |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | Fido | Fido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gardener | det |
| 10 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 gardener | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pocket | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 18 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pocket | compound |
| 19 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl | ||
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the pet elephant | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | take away | past | the gardener's son | Tom | Tom's coat pocket | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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