The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 52
And the boy could reef a sail and coil a rope and keep the ship's nose steady before the wind.
Who acts: sail · What happens: coil, keep · To what, where: rope, nose
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 (sail), 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 reef | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reef | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 reef | aux |
| 5 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sail | det |
| 7 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coil | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 coil | cc |
| 9 | coil | coil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reef | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rope | det |
| 11 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coil | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 keep | cc |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 coil | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nose | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 17 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 18 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 keep | xcomp |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 wind | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wind | det |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 steady | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reef | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coil | infinitive | a sail | a rope | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent rope=Material | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | a sail not said here | the ship's nose | steady property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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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