The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 40
Effie, run round to the professor and ask him to be kind enough to step in for a few minutes."
Who acts: Effie · What happens: run, ask, be, step in · To what, where: professor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Effie), 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 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Effie | punct |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 professor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 professor | det |
| 7 | professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ask | cc |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 run | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ask | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 kind | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 kind | cop |
| 13 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ask | ccomp |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 kind | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 step | mark |
| 16 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 kind | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 step | compound:prt |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 minutes | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 minutes | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 minutes | amod |
| 21 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 step | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Effie | to the professor result; round property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to professor=Result | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Effie not said here | professor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | enough, kind property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | step in | to-infinitive | minute | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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