The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 36
"The largest elephant in the zoo was carried off."
What happens: carry off · To what, where: largest elephant
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: 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 | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elephant | det |
| 3 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 elephant | amod |
| 4 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 zoo | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 zoo | det |
| 7 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elephant | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | aux:pass |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 carried | compound:prt |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off in a quote | past · passive | the largest elephant in the zoo | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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