The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 149
Under him was written, "Blue Bird of Paradise," and while the King gazed enchanted at the charming picture the Blue Bird fluttered his wings on the yellow page and spread them and flew out of the book.
Who acts: Blue Bird · What happens: write, enchant, flutter, spread, fly out · To what, where: Lionel, King, charming picture, wings, yellow page, book
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 (Blue Bird), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 4 written | mark |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 written | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | aux:pass |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 fluttered | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bird | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bird | punct |
| 7 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bird | amod |
| 8 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 written | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Paradise | case |
| 10 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bird | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 written | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 written | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 enchanted | cc |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 enchanted | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 enchanted | nsubj |
| 17 | gazed | gaze | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 18 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 fluttered | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 picture | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 picture | det |
| 21 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 picture | compound |
| 22 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enchanted | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Bird | det |
| 24 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Bird | amod |
| 25 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 fluttered | nsubj |
| 26 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wings | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fluttered | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 page | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 page | det |
| 31 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 page | amod |
| 32 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fluttered | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 spread | cc |
| 34 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fluttered | conj |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 spread | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 flew | cc |
| 37 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 spread | conj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 book | case |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 book | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 book | det |
| 41 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 flew | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 fluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | Lionel | Blue Bird of Paradise obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enchant | past · passive | the King | the charming picture | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | flutter | past | the Blue Bird | Lionel's wings | the yellow page | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | |||
| 4 | spread | past | the Blue Bird not said here | wings = wing | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fly out | past | the Blue Bird not said here | the book | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme |
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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