The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 17
So when the tide began to go down, Nigel and the Princess ran out on to the sands, and there, in full sight of the terrace where the dragon kept watch, Nigel took his Princess in his arms and kissed her.
Who acts: tide, Princess, Nigel · What happens: begin, go down, run out, keep, take, kiss · To what, where: sands, dragon, Princess, arms, terrace
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tide, Princess, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 began | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tide | det |
| 4 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Nigel | punct |
| 10 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 go | vocative |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 ran | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 sands | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 on | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sands | det |
| 19 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ran | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 there | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 there | cc |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 began | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sight | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sight | amod |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 terrace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 terrace | det |
| 29 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sight | nmod |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 kept | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dragon | det |
| 32 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 terrace | acl:relcl |
| 34 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kept | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 took | punct |
| 36 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 took | nsubj |
| 37 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | parataxis |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 39 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 took | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 arms | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 arms | nmod:poss |
| 42 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 took | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 kissed | cc |
| 44 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 took | conj |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 kissed | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the tide | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go down | to-infinitive | the tide not said here | Nigel vocative; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | run out | past | the Princess | the sands | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | keep | participle · passive | the dragon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | past | Nigel | Nigel's Princess | Nigel's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent princess=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 6 | kiss | past | Nigel not said here | Princess | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | sight | the terrace | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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