The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 80
By five minutes and one second past noon, the whirlpools were black and busy again, and Nigel peeped out of his cave.
Who acts: whirlpools, Nigel · What happens: be, peep out · To what, where: cave
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 (whirlpools, Nigel), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 minutes | case |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 black | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 noon | cc |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 noon | nummod |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 noon | amod |
| 7 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noon | amod |
| 8 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 minutes | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 minutes | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 whirlpools | det |
| 11 | whirlpools | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 black | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 black | cop |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 busy | cc |
| 15 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 black | conj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 busy | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 peeped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 peeped | cc |
| 19 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 peeped | nsubj |
| 20 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 black | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 cave | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cave | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 cave | nmod:poss |
| 24 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 peeped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 black | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the whirlpools | minute | black property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the whirlpools not said here | again | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | peep out | past | Nigel | Nigel's cave | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cave=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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