The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 17
I intended to get a more perfect specimen.
Who acts: I · What happens: intend, get · To what, where: more perfect specimen
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 intended | nsubj |
| 2 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 intended | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 specimen | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 specimen | amod |
| 7 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 specimen | amod |
| 8 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past | I | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a more perfect specimen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer specimen=Stimulus |
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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