The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 4
With illustrations by H. R. Millar
Who acts: H. R. · What happens: illustrate
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 (H. R.), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 illustrations | case |
| 2 | illustrations | illustration | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 R. | case |
| 4 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 R. | compound |
| 5 | R. | R. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 illustrations | nmod |
| 6 | Millar | Millar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 R. | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | illustrate | H. R. | nom illustration «communication transitive»: by=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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