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The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 81

And on the rocky ledge overhanging the sea he saw a Princess as beautiful as the day, with golden hair and a green gown--and he went out to meet her.

Who acts: rocky ledge, Nigel · What happens: overhang, see, go out, meet · To what, where: sea, Princess, rocky ledge

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 (rocky ledge, 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

cccasedetamodoblacldetobjnsubjdetobjadvmodamodcasedetoblpunctcaseamodoblccdetamodconjpunctccnsubjconjadvmodmarkadvclobjpunctrootAndCCONJonADPtheDETrockyADJledgeNOUNoverhangingVERBtheDETseaNOUNhePRONsawVERBaDETPrincessNOUNasADVbeautifulADJasADPtheDETdayNOUN,PUNCTwithADPgoldenADJhairNOUNandCCONJaDETgreenADJgownNOUN--PUNCTandCCONJhePRONwentVERBoutADVtoPARTmeetVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_10 sawcc
2ononADP_5 ledgecase
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 ledgedet
4rockyrockyADJDegree=Pos5 ledgeamod
5ledgeledgeNOUNNumber=Sing10 sawobl
6overhangingoverhangVERBVerbForm=Ger5 ledgeacl
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 seadet
8seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing6 overhangingobj
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 sawnsubj
10sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 Princessdet
12PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing10 sawobj
13asasADV_14 beautifuladvmod
14beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos12 Princessamod
15asasADP_17 daycase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 daydet
17daydayNOUNNumber=Sing14 beautifulobl
18,,PUNCT_21 hairpunct
19withwithADP_21 haircase
20goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos21 hairamod
21hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing10 sawobl
22andandCCONJ_25 gowncc
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 gowndet
24greengreenADJDegree=Pos25 gownamod
25gowngownNOUNNumber=Sing21 hairconj
26----PUNCT_29 wentpunct
27andandCCONJ_29 wentcc
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 wentnsubj
29wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 sawconj
30outoutADV_29 wentadvmod
31totoPART_32 meetmark
32meetmeetVERBVerbForm=Inf29 wentadvcl
33hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 meetobj
34..PUNCT_10 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1overhanggerundthe rocky ledge not said herethe seavn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme
2seepastNigela Princessthe rocky ledgewith golden hair and a green gownvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
3go outpastNigelout propertyvn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4meetto-infinitiveNigel not said herePrincessvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

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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