The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 52
The witch was clambering slowly off her pedestal.
Who acts: witch · What happens: clamber · To what, where: pedestal
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 (witch), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clambering | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clambering | aux |
| 4 | clambering | clamber | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 clambering | advmod |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 pedestal | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pedestal | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pedestal | pedestal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clambering | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clambering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clamber | past · progressive | the witch | witch's pedestal | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off pedestal=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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