The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 161
But when Lionel was in bed he could not sleep for thinking of the book, and when the full moon was shining with all her might and light he got up and crept down to the library and climbed up and got _The Book of Beasts_.
Who acts: Lionel, full moon, moon · What happens: be, not sleep, think, shine, get up, creep down · To what, where: bed, light, library, 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 (Lionel, full moon, moon), 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 sleep | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 bed | mark |
| 3 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bed | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sleep | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sleep | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sleep | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 sleep | advmod |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 thinking | mark |
| 12 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sleep | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 book | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 book | det |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thinking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shining | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shining | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 shining | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moon | det |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 moon | amod |
| 21 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shining | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 shining | aux |
| 23 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sleep | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 light | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 light | det:predet |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 light | nmod:poss |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 light | aux |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 light | cc |
| 29 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shining | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 got | nsubj |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 light | acl:relcl |
| 32 | up | up | ADV | _ | 31 got | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 crept | cc |
| 34 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 got | conj |
| 35 | down | down | ADV | _ | 34 crept | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 library | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 library | det |
| 38 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 crept | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 climbed | cc |
| 40 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 got | conj |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 climbed | compound:prt |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 got | cc |
| 43 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 climbed | conj |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 got | punct |
| 45 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Book | det |
| 46 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 got | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Beasts | case |
| 48 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 46 Book | nmod |
| 49 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 got | punct |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Lionel | bed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not sleep | could | Lionel | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | Lionel not said here | of the book | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shine | past · progressive | the full moon | with moon's light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get up | past | Lionel | moon's light not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | creep down | past | Lionel not said here | the library | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to library=Destination | |||
| 7 | climb up | past | Lionel not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | get | past | Lionel not said here | the Book of Beasts | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | light | moon | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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