The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 58
Those whirlpools were made by the enchanter-King's dropping nine drops of his blood into the sea.
Who acts: King · What happens: make, drop · To what, where: whirlpools, nine drops, sea
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 (King), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 whirlpools | det |
| 2 | whirlpools | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 dropping | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dropping | det |
| 7 | enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dropping | vocative |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 enchanter | punct |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dropping | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dropping | aux |
| 11 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 made | advcl |
| 12 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 drops | nummod |
| 13 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dropping | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 blood | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 blood | nmod:poss |
| 16 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drops | nmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dropping | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | that whirlpools | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | drop | present · progressive | King | nine drops of King's blood | the sea | enchanter vocative | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme into sea=Destination |
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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