The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 24
And his carriage, drawn by live thunderbolts (thunder travels very fast), rose in the air and disappeared, and the poor Princess was left, with the dragon and the griffin, on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools.
Who acts: live thunderbolts, thunder · What happens: draw, travel, rise, disappear, leave · To what, where: carriage, air, poor Princess, 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 (live thunderbolts, thunder), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 drawn | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 3 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 drawn | punct |
| 5 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 thunderbolts | case |
| 7 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thunderbolts | amod |
| 8 | thunderbolts | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drawn | obl |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 travels | punct |
| 10 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 travels | nsubj |
| 11 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drawn | advcl |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 fast | advmod |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 travels | advmod |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 travels | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 travels | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 disappeared | cc |
| 21 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rose | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 left | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 left | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Princess | det |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Princess | amod |
| 26 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 left | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 left | aux:pass |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 disappeared | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dragon | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 dragon | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dragon | det |
| 32 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 griffin | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 griffin | det |
| 35 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dragon | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Island | punct |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 Island | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Island | det |
| 39 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 left | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Whirlpools | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Whirlpools | det |
| 42 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 Whirlpools | nummod |
| 43 | Whirlpools | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Island | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle · passive | live thunderbolts | plan's carriage | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | thunder | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | the air | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | |||||
| 4 | disappear | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | leave | past · passive | the poor Princess | the Island of the Nine Whirlpools | with the dragon and the griffin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme 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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