The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 18
He is a Threefold Complete Bad--and he will come to no good.
Who acts: James · What happens: be, come · To what, where: good
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (James), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Bad | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Bad | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Bad | det |
| 4 | Threefold | Threefold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Complete | compound |
| 5 | Complete | Complete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bad | compound |
| 6 | Bad | Bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 come | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Bad | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 good | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 good | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | James | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | future | James | no good | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to good=Initial_Location |
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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