The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 15
He took the poor Princess to the Lone Tower, which stands on an island in the sea, a thousand miles from everywhere.
Who acts: plan, Lone Tower · What happens: take, stand · To what, where: poor Princess, Lone Tower, island
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 (plan, Lone Tower), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Princess | amod |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Tower | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tower | det |
| 8 | Lone | Lone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Tower | compound |
| 9 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stands | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stands | nsubj |
| 12 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Tower | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 island | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 island | det |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 island | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 miles | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thousand | det |
| 21 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 miles | nummod |
| 22 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 everywhere | case |
| 24 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 miles | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | plan | the poor Princess | the Lone Tower | thousand miles obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to tower=Destination | ||
| 2 | stand | present | the Lone Tower | a island in the sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on island=Location |
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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