The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 60
It is the light that shines from the Lone Tower that stands above the Nine Whirlpools.
Who acts: light, that · What happens: be, shine, stand · To what, where: light, Lone Tower, Nine Whirlpools
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 (light, that), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 light | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 light | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 light | det |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 shines | nsubj |
| 6 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 light | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Tower | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tower | det |
| 9 | Lone | Lone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tower | compound |
| 10 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shines | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stands | nsubj |
| 12 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 light | parataxis |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 16 Whirlpools | case |
| 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 | 12 stands | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | light | the light | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | present | the light | the Lone Tower | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | present | that | the Nine Whirlpools | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above whirlpool=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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