The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 177
They hurried off to consult the police and see what could be done.
Who acts: things · What happens: hurry off, consult, see, do · To what, where: police · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (things), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 hurried | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 consult | mark |
| 5 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hurried | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 police | det |
| 7 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 consult | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 consult | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 done | obj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 done | aux:pass |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 see | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry off | past | things = thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | consult | to-infinitive | things = thing not said here | the police | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent police=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | things = thing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | could · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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