The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 133
Look here, this is what is written on the tablet of the statue by the lower gate.
Who acts: you, this, lower gate · What happens: look, be, write · To what, where: tablet
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, lower gate), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Look | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 what | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 what | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | cop |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Look | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 written | aux:pass |
| 8 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 tablet | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tablet | det |
| 11 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 written | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 statue | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 statue | det |
| 14 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tablet | nmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 gate | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gate | det |
| 17 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 gate | amod |
| 18 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 written | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | write | present · passive | the lower gate | the tablet of the statue | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on tablet=Destination |
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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