The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 28
"The Manticora took refuge in the General Post Office."
Who acts: Manticora · What happens: take · To what, where: refuge, General Post Office
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 (Manticora), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Manticora | det |
| 3 | Manticora | Manticora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Office | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Office | det |
| 8 | General | General | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Office | amod |
| 9 | Post | Post | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Office | compound |
| 10 | Office | Office | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | the Manticora | refuge | the General Post Office | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in office=Location |
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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