The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 109

But St. George is a real person, and he is only asleep, and he is waiting to be waked up.

Who acts: George · What happens: be, wait, wake up · To what, where: real person

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 person	cc
2	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 George	nmod:desc
3	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 person	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 person	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asleep	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asleep	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asleep	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asleep	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 asleep	advmod
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 waiting	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 waiting	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 waiting	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 waiting	aux
18	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 asleep	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	21 waked	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 waked	aux:pass
21	waked	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 waiting	advcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 waked	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 person	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	George St.	a real person		tree rules
2	is	present	George		asleep property	tree rules
3	wait	present · progressive	George			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wake up	to-infinitive · passive	George not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

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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