The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 33
But before it reached the shore sleep caught it and turned it to stone.
Who acts: half · What happens: reach, catch, turn · To what, where: shore sleep, half, stone
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 (half), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 caught | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 caught | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sleep | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleep | compound |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 caught | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | half | the shore sleep | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | half | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | half | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to stone=Trajectory |
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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