The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 53
So now the doctor and the professor each had a specimen, and they were both very pleased.
Who acts: doctor, lizard · What happens: have, be · To what, where: specimen
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, lizard), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 had | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 doctor | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doctor | det |
| 4 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 professor | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 professor | det |
| 7 | professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doctor | conj |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 had | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 specimen | det |
| 11 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pleased | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pleased | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pleased | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pleased | cop |
| 16 | both | both | ADV | _ | 18 pleased | advmod |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 pleased | advmod |
| 18 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 had | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the doctor and the professor | a specimen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent specimen=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | lizard | both, pleased property | 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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