The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 53
She was a little stiff from standing still so long.
Who acts: witch · What happens: be, stand
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stiff | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stiff | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stiff | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 standing | mark |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stiff | advcl |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 standing | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 standing | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stiff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | witch | a little obl:unmarked; stiff property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | witch not said here | still | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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