The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 46
"The lone tower on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools."
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 | _ | 4 tower | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tower | det |
| 3 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tower | amod |
| 4 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Island | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Island | det |
| 7 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tower | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Whirlpools | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Whirlpools | det |
| 10 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Whirlpools | nummod |
| 11 | Whirlpools | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tower | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tower | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tower | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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