The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 61
So Nigel understood and went out at low tide, and found in the sandy hollow left by the first whirlpool a great red ruby.
Who acts: Nigel, sandy hollow · What happens: understand, go out, find, leave · To what, where: low tide, sandy hollow, great red ruby
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 (Nigel, sandy hollow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 understood | advmod |
| 2 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 understood | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 tide | case |
| 8 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tide | amod |
| 9 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 understood | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hollow | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hollow | det |
| 15 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hollow | amod |
| 16 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hollow | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 whirlpool | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 whirlpool | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 whirlpool | amod |
| 21 | whirlpool | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 ruby | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ruby | amod |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ruby | amod |
| 25 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | Nigel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | go out | past | Nigel not said here | low tide | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | participle | Nigel not said here | the sandy hollow | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | the sandy hollow not said here | a great red ruby | by the first whirlpool | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ruby=Theme by whirlpool=Location |
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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