The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 59
And his blood was so wicked that the sea has been trying ever since to get rid of it, and that made the whirlpools.
Who acts: blood, sea, that · What happens: be, try, get, make · To what, where: whirlpools
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 (blood, sea, that), 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 | _ | 6 wicked | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 blood | nmod:poss |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wicked | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wicked | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 wicked | advmod |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 trying | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trying | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 trying | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 trying | aux |
| 12 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 wicked | advcl |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 since | advmod |
| 14 | since | since | ADV | _ | 12 trying | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 trying | xcomp |
| 17 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 get | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rid | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wicked | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 whirlpools | det |
| 25 | whirlpools | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 made | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King's blood | wicked property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | present · perfect · progressive | the sea | since property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sea not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | make | past | that | the whirlpools | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset whirlpool=Product |
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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