The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 46

A boy was sent to wake the army, so that it might look for him.

Who acts: boy, army · What happens: send, wake, look · To what, where: boy, army

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 (boy, army), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wake	mark
6	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 army	det
8	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wake	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 look	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 look	aux
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wake	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		a boy		tree rules
2	wake	to-infinitive	a boy not said here	the army		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent army=Patient
3	look	might	army		for boy	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for 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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