The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 163
There was some sort of red thing sitting under a palm tree, and under it was written "Dragon."
Who acts: sort, red thing · What happens: be, sit, write, sort · To what, where: palm tree, sort, red thing
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 (sort, red thing), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 sort | det |
| 4 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 thing | case |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sort | nmod |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 thing | acl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 written | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 written | cc |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 written | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 written | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 written | aux:pass |
| 18 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | advcl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Dragon | punct |
| 20 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 written | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | some sort of red thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | red thing not said here | a palm tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | write | past · passive | sort | Dragon obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sort | red thing | nom sort «cognition 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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