The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 47
George had to own that he had not learned that.
Who acts: George, fiddlestick · What happens: have, own, not learn · To what, where: that
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 (George, fiddlestick), 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 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 own | mark |
| 4 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 learned | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 learned | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 learned | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 learned | advmod |
| 9 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 own | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 learned | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | George | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | own | to-infinitive | George not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not learn | past · perfect | fiddlestick | that | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
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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