The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 139
It was all he could do to show that he was in the same temper as his master.
Who acts: goldfish · What happens: do, show, be · To what, where: same temper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goldfish), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 all | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 all | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 all | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 show | mark |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 temper | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 temper | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 temper | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 temper | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 temper | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 temper | amod |
| 15 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 show | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 master | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 temper | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | goldfish | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | goldfish not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | goldfish | the same temper | as goldfish's master | 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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