The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 20
He had kept his specimen--the one the size of an earwig that he gave Harry half a crown for--and he has it to this day.
Who acts: professor, Harry · What happens: keep, give, crown, have · To what, where: professor, earwig, 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 (professor, Harry), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | aux |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 specimen | nmod:poss |
| 5 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 size | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 size | nummod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 size | det |
| 10 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 specimen | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 earwig | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 earwig | det |
| 13 | earwig | earwig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 size | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 gave | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 earwig | acl:relcl |
| 17 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 crown | nsubj |
| 18 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 20 crown | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 crown | det |
| 20 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 gave | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 has | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 has | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 has | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 has | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 day | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 day | det |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect · passive | professor | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme specimen=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | give | past | professor | a earwig not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earwig=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crown | Harry | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | have | present | professor | specimen | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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