The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 143
But Lionel had got the gold clasps undone, and he opened the first page, and there was a beautiful Butterfly all red, and brown, and yellow, and blue, so beautifully painted that it looked as if it were alive.
Who acts: Lionel, it, Gold · What happens: get, undo, open, be, paint, look · To what, where: gold, first page, beautiful Butterfly
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, it, Gold), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gold | det |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 undone | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | clasps | clasp | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 undone | aux:pass |
| 8 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 opened | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Butterfly | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 page | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 page | amod |
| 15 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 was | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Butterfly | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Butterfly | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Butterfly | amod |
| 22 | Butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | parataxis |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 red | det |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brown | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 brown | cc |
| 27 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 red | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 yellow | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 yellow | cc |
| 30 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 red | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 blue | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 blue | cc |
| 33 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 red | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 painted | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 painted | advmod |
| 36 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 37 painted | advmod |
| 37 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 looked | mark |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 looked | nsubj |
| 40 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 painted | advcl |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 alive | mark |
| 42 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 alive | mark |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 alive | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 alive | cop |
| 45 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 looked | ccomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Lionel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | undo | present · passive | the gold | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | open | past | Lionel | the first page | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location page=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a beautiful Butterfly | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | paint | past | Lionel not said here | beautifully property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | look | past | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | Gold | alive property | 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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