The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 9
He did not do the things, but he did for the needles."
Who acts: George · What happens: not do, do · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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 | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 things | det |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 did | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 needles | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 needles | det |
| 13 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 did | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past · do-support | George | the things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | past | George | for the needles | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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