The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 46
Effie's brother Harry fished something out of his tea, which he thought at first was an earwig.
Who acts: brother · What happens: fish, think, be · To what, where: something, tea, earwig · 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 (brother), 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 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Effie | case |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fished | nsubj |
| 4 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | appos |
| 5 | fished | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 fished | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 tea | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tea | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tea | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 something | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 first | case |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 earwig | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 earwig | cop |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 earwig | det |
| 19 | earwig | earwig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fish | past | Effie's brother | something | brother's tea | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent something=Theme out tea=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | a earwig | tree rules |
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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