The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 164
The Dragon did not move, and the King shut up the book rather quickly and went back to bed.
Who acts: Dragon, King · What happens: not move, shut up, go back · To what, where: 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 (Dragon, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dragon | det |
| 2 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 move | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 move | advmod |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shut | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shut | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 shut | nsubj |
| 10 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 shut | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shut | obj |
| 14 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 15 quickly | advmod |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 book | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shut | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | past · do-support | the Dragon | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shut up | past | the King | the book | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | the King not said here | to bed result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result |
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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