The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 30
And the tide was low, and sleepy little waves lapped the sand's edge.
Who acts: tide, sleepy little waves · What happens: be, lap · To what, where: edge
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, sleepy little waves), 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 low | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tide | det |
| 3 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 low | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 low | cop |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lapped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lapped | cc |
| 8 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 waves | amod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 waves | amod |
| 10 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lapped | nsubj |
| 11 | lapped | lap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 low | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sand | det |
| 13 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 edge | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 sand | case |
| 15 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lapped | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 low | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tide | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lap | past | sleepy little waves | the sand's edge | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=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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