The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 43
The doctor was so pleased with the new specimen that he gave Effie a shilling, and presently the professor stepped round.
Who acts: doctor, professor · What happens: be, give, step · To what, where: shilling, Effie
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 (doctor, professor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 specimen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 specimen | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 specimen | amod |
| 9 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 gave | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | advcl |
| 13 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shilling | det |
| 15 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stepped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stepped | cc |
| 18 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 21 stepped | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 professor | det |
| 20 | professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stepped | nsubj |
| 21 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 22 | round | round | ADV | _ | 21 stepped | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the doctor | with the new specimen; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | doctor | a shilling | Effie | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent effie=Recipient shilling=Theme | |||
| 3 | step | past | the professor | presently, round property | 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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