The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 40
Then the three kissed one another again and again, and the witch said the spell, and on each side of the door there was now a stone lady.
Who acts: three, witch · What happens: kiss, say, be · To what, where: one, spell, stone lady · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (three, witch), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 three | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 kissed | obj |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | fixed |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 kissed | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 again | cc |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 again | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 witch | det |
| 13 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spell | det |
| 16 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lady | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 was | cc |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 side | det |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 side | nmod |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lady | cop |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 lady | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lady | det |
| 29 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lady | compound |
| 30 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the three | one | then; again | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | the spell | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent spell=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the three not said here | a stone lady | now | tree rules |
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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