The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 24
Tom went home, and told his elephant all about it.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: elephant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 elephant | nmod:poss |
| 8 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 it | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Tom | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Tom not said here | Tom's elephant | about elephant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient about it=Topic |
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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