The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 42
I took great care of it inside my eye, and my eye _does_ hurt."
Who acts: I, care · What happens: take, hurt, care · To what, where: great care, eye
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 (I, care), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 care | amod |
| 4 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 care | nmod |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 eye | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eye | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 does | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 does | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eye | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 does | nsubj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 eye | punct |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hurt | aux |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 does | punct |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 hurt | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | great care of care | my eye | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||
| 2 | hurt | present · do-support | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | care | care | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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