The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 74

And Tom was a kind boy, and would not have liked to make even a rabbit unhappy.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: be, not like, make · To what, where: kind boy, rabbit

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.

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 Tom	cc
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 boy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 liked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 liked	cc
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 liked	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 liked	advmod
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 liked	aux
12	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 boy	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 liked	advcl
15	even	even	ADV	_	17 rabbit	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rabbit	det
17	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
18	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 make	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Tom	a kind boy		tree rules
2	not like	would · perfect		a kind boy not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	make	to-infinitive		a rabbit	unhappy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rabbit=Product

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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