The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 19
He'll have to be clever enough to sail a ship through the Nine Whirlpools that spin around the island, and to kill the dragon and the griffin.
Who acts: plan, Nine Whirlpools · What happens: have, be, sail, spin, kill · To what, where: ship, Nine Whirlpools, island, dragon
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, Nine Whirlpools), 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 | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 clever | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 clever | cop |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | xcomp |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 clever | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sail | mark |
| 9 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 clever | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sail | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 Whirlpools | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Whirlpools | det |
| 14 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 Whirlpools | nummod |
| 15 | Whirlpools | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sail | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 spin | nsubj |
| 17 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Whirlpools | acl:relcl |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 20 island | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 island | det |
| 20 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spin | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kill | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kill | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 kill | mark |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kill | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 griffin | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 griffin | det |
| 29 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dragon | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | plan | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | plan not said here | clever, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sail | to-infinitive | plan not said here | a ship | the Nine Whirlpools | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Theme through whirlpool=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | spin | present | the Nine Whirlpools | the island | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around island=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | plan not said here | the dragon and the griffin | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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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