The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 148
But before he had spoken, the King had turned the next page, and there was a shining bird complete and beautiful in every blue feather of him.
Who acts: Lionel, King · What happens: speak, turn, shine, be · To what, where: next page · 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, King), 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 | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 spoken | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoken | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | aux |
| 5 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 turned | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoken | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | aux |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 page | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 page | amod |
| 13 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 complete | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 19 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 bird | amod |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 21 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turned | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 beautiful | cc |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 complete | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 feather | case |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 feather | det |
| 26 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 feather | amod |
| 27 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 feather | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | Lionel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | past · perfect | the King | the next page | in every blue feather of Lionel | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent page=Patient in feather=Topic | |||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the King not said here | complete property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the King not said here | 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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