The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 139
"Just this one," cried Lionel, laying his hands on the cover of a great brown book that lay on the study table.
Who acts: Lionel, great brown book · What happens: cry, lay, lie · To what, where: hands, cover, study table
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 (Lionel, great brown book), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laying | punct |
| 10 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laying | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 cover | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cover | det |
| 15 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laying | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 book | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 book | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 book | amod |
| 19 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 book | amod |
| 20 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cover | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 book | acl:relcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 table | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 table | det |
| 25 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 table | compound |
| 26 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Lionel | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lay | gerund | Lionel not said here | Lionel's hands | the cover of a great brown book | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on cover=Destination | |||
| 3 | lie | past | a great brown book | the study table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location |
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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