The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 81
The grave gentlemen led the way to a coach with eight white horses, which was drawn up in front of the house where Lionel lived.
Who acts: grave gentlemen, Lionel · What happens: lead, draw up, live · To what, where: way, coach, eight white horses, front
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 (grave gentlemen, Lionel), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gentlemen | det |
| 2 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gentlemen | amod |
| 3 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 coach | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 coach | det |
| 9 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 horses | case |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 horses | nummod |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 horses | amod |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 led | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drawn | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drawn | aux:pass |
| 17 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 horses | acl:relcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 drawn | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drawn | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 front | nmod |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 lived | advmod |
| 25 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lived | nsubj |
| 26 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 house | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the grave gentlemen | the way | a coach | with eight white horses | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to coach=Destination | ||
| 2 | draw up | past · passive | eight white horses | front of the house | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in front=Destination | ||||
| 3 | live | past | Lionel | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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