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The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 23

Effie's father was a doctor, so of course he knew how to take things out of eyes--he did it very cleverly with a soft paintbrush dipped in castor oil.

Who acts: father, kind · What happens: be, know, take, do, dip · To what, where: doctor, things, eyes, thing, soft paintbrush

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 (father, kind), 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

nmod:posscasensubjcopdetpunctadvmodadvmodfixednsubjconjadvmodmarkxcompobjcasecaseoblpunctnsubjconjobjadvmodadvmodcasedetamodoblaclcasecompoundoblpunctrootEffiePROPN'sPARTfatherNOUNwasAUXaDETdoctorNOUN,PUNCTsoADVofADPcourseNOUNhePRONknewVERBhowADVtoPARTtakeVERBthingsNOUNoutADPofADPeyesNOUN--PUNCThePRONdidVERBitPRONveryADVcleverlyADVwithADPaDETsoftADJpaintbrushNOUNdippedVERBinADPcastorNOUNoilNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EffieEffiePROPNNumber=Sing3 fathernmod:poss
2's'sPART_1 Effiecase
3fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing6 doctornsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 doctorcop
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 doctordet
6doctordoctorNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
7,,PUNCT_12 knewpunct
8sosoADV_12 knewadvmod
9ofofADPExtPos=ADV12 knewadvmod
10coursecourseNOUNNumber=Sing9 offixed
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 knewnsubj
12knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 doctorconj
13howhowADVPronType=Int15 takeadvmod
14totoPART_15 takemark
15taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf12 knewxcomp
16thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur15 takeobj
17outoutADP_19 eyescase
18ofofADP_19 eyescase
19eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur15 takeobl
20----PUNCT_22 didpunct
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 didnsubj
22diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 doctorconj
23ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 didobj
24veryveryADV_25 cleverlyadvmod
25cleverlycleverlyADV_22 didadvmod
26withwithADP_29 paintbrushcase
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 paintbrushdet
28softsoftADJDegree=Pos29 paintbrushamod
29paintbrushpaintbrushNOUNNumber=Sing22 didobl
30dippeddipVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass29 paintbrushacl
31ininADP_33 oilcase
32castorcastorNOUNNumber=Sing33 oilcompound
33oiloilNOUNNumber=Sing30 dippedobl
34..PUNCT_6 doctorpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastEffie's fathera doctortree rules
2knowpastkindvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3taketo-infinitivekind not said herethingseyesvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme out eye=Initial_Location
4dopastkindthingwith a soft paintbrush; cleverly propertyvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5dipparticiplea soft paintbrush not said herein castor oilvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in oil=Attribute

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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