The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 47
And the years went by in tens and in hundreds, and still the Nine Whirlpools spun around, roaring in triumph the story of many a good ship that had gone down in their swirl, bearing with it some Prince who had tried to win the Princess and her dowry.
Who acts: years, many good ship · What happens: go, spin around, roar, go down, bear, try · To what, where: Nine Whirlpools, story, triumph, Prince, Princess
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 (years, many good ship), 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 | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 tens | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tens | case |
| 7 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hundreds | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hundreds | case |
| 10 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tens | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Whirlpools | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Whirlpools | cc |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 Whirlpools | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Whirlpools | det |
| 15 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Whirlpools | nummod |
| 16 | Whirlpools | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | parataxis |
| 17 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Whirlpools | acl |
| 18 | around | around | ADV | _ | 17 spun | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 roaring | punct |
| 20 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 triumph | case |
| 22 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roaring | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 story | det |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roaring | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ship | case |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ship | amod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 ship | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ship | amod |
| 29 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 story | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 gone | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 gone | aux |
| 32 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 ship | acl:relcl |
| 33 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 gone | compound:prt |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 swirl | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 swirl | nmod:poss |
| 36 | swirl | swirl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gone | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bearing | punct |
| 38 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 roaring | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 bearing | obl |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 Prince | det |
| 42 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 tried | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 tried | aux |
| 45 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 bearing | advcl |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 win | mark |
| 47 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 tried | xcomp |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Princess | det |
| 49 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 win | obj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 dowry | cc |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 dowry | nmod:poss |
| 52 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Princess | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the years | by tens and hundreds | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by ten=Location | ||||
| 2 | spin around | participle | the Nine Whirlpools not said here | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roar | gerund | the years not said here | the story of a many good ship | triumph | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location story=Theme | |||
| 4 | go down | past · perfect | a many good ship | in Whirlpools's swirl | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in swirl=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | bear | gerund | the years not said here | with swirl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | try | past · perfect · passive | some Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Princess and Princess's dowry | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
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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