The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 106
Here the Prime Minister wiped away a tear, and just then the carriage stopped and Lionel was taken out of the carriage to be crowned.
Who acts: Prime Minister, carriage · What happens: wipe away, stop, take out, crown · To what, where: tear, Lionel, carriage
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prime Minister, carriage), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 wiped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Minister | det |
| 3 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 4 Minister | compound |
| 4 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wiped | nsubj |
| 5 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 wiped | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tear | det |
| 8 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wiped | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | cc |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 then | advmod |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 stopped | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 carriage | det |
| 14 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stopped | nsubj |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wiped | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 taken | cc |
| 17 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 stopped | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 carriage | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 carriage | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 carriage | det |
| 23 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 crowned | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 crowned | aux:pass |
| 26 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 taken | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wiped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe away | past | the Prime Minister | a tear | here | away property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | ||
| 2 | stop | past | the carriage | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take out | past · passive | Lionel | the carriage | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | crown | to-infinitive · passive | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
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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