The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 162
He took it outside to the terrace, where the moonlight was as bright as day, and he opened the book, and saw the empty pages with "Butterfly" and "Blue Bird of Paradise" underneath, and then he turned the next page.
Who acts: Lionel, moonlight · What happens: take, be, open, see, turn · To what, where: Book, terrace, empty pages, next page
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, moonlight), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 terrace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 terrace | det |
| 7 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bright | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 bright | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moonlight | det |
| 11 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bright | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bright | cop |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 bright | advmod |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 terrace | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bright | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 opened | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 opened | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 opened | nsubj |
| 20 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 book | det |
| 22 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 opened | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 saw | cc |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pages | det |
| 27 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pages | amod |
| 28 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 saw | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Butterfly | case |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Butterfly | punct |
| 31 | Butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saw | obl |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Butterfly | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Bird | cc |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Bird | punct |
| 35 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Bird | amod |
| 36 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Butterfly | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Paradise | case |
| 38 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Bird | nmod |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 underneath | punct |
| 40 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 25 saw | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 turned | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 turned | cc |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 turned | advmod |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 turned | nsubj |
| 45 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 page | det |
| 47 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 page | amod |
| 48 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 turned | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Lionel | Book | the terrace | outside property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to terrace=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | past | the moonlight | day | bright property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | open | past | Lionel | the book | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Lionel not said here | the empty pages | with Butterfly and Blue Bird of Paradise; underneath property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer page=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | turn | past | Lionel | the next page | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent page=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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