The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 146
But as he spoke the beautiful Butterfly fluttered its many-colored wings on the yellow old page of the book, and flew up and out of the window.
Who acts: Lionel · What happens: speak, flutter, color, fly up, page · To what, where: beautiful Butterfly, colored wings, yellow old page, book · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 8 fluttered | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fluttered | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Butterfly | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Butterfly | amod |
| 7 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obj |
| 8 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 colored | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 many | punct |
| 12 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wings | amod |
| 13 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fluttered | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 page | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 page | det |
| 16 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 page | amod |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 page | amod |
| 18 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fluttered | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 book | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 book | det |
| 21 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 page | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flew | cc |
| 24 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fluttered | parataxis |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 flew | compound:prt |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 window | cc |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 window | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 window | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 window | det |
| 30 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Lionel | the beautiful Butterfly | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flutter | past | Butterfly's colored wings | the yellow old page of the book | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fly up | past | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | page | the book | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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