The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 63
He is accustomed to have a present on his birthday.
What happens: accustom, have · To what, where: uncle, present, birthday
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: 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 | 3 accustomed | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 3 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 accustomed | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 present | det |
| 7 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 birthday | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 10 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 present | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accustomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accustom | present · passive | uncle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | a present | uncle's birthday | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Patient |
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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