The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 38
"He rose into the air, rattling like a third-class carriage."
Who acts: PAGE · What happens: rise, rattle · To what, where: air
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 (PAGE), 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 | _ | 3 rose | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rattling | punct |
| 8 | rattling | rattle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rose | advcl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 carriage | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 carriage | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 class | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 third | punct |
| 13 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carriage | compound |
| 14 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rattling | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise in a quote | past | PAGE | the air | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | rattle in a quote | gerund | PAGE not said here | like a class carriage | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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