The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 32
So the witch took the Queen in a carriage drawn by live sunbeams (which travel more quickly than anything else in the world, and much quicker than thunder), and so away and away to the Lone Tower on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools.
Who acts: witch, live sunbeams · What happens: take, draw, travel · To what, where: Queen, carriage
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 (witch, live sunbeams), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 carriage | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 carriage | det |
| 9 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 carriage | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 sunbeams | case |
| 12 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sunbeams | amod |
| 13 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drawn | obl |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 travel | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 travel | nsubj |
| 16 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sunbeams | acl:relcl |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 quickly | advmod |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 travel | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 anything | case |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 quickly | obl |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 20 anything | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 anything | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 quicker | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 quicker | cc |
| 27 | much | much | ADV | _ | 28 quicker | advmod |
| 28 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 travel | conj |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 thunder | case |
| 30 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 quicker | obl |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 quicker | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 away | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 away | cc |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 away | advmod |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 away | cc |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 away | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 Tower | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Tower | det |
| 40 | Lone | Lone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Tower | compound |
| 41 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 away | obl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 Island | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Island | det |
| 44 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Whirlpools | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Whirlpools | det |
| 47 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 Whirlpools | nummod |
| 48 | Whirlpools | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 Island | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the witch | the Queen | a carriage | on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools; away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent queen=Theme on island=Destination | ||
| 2 | draw | participle | a carriage not said here | by live sunbeams | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | travel | present | live sunbeams | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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