The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 63
The next day Nigel found another, and next day another, and so on till the ninth day, and then the sea was as smooth as glass.
Who acts: next day, sea · What happens: find, be · To what, where: another
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 (next day, sea), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 4 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 another | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 another | cc |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 another | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 found | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 smooth | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 smooth | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 smooth | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 smooth | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 smooth | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 smooth | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 smooth | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 smooth | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 smooth | cop |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 smooth | advmod |
| 27 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 another | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 glass | case |
| 29 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 smooth | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the next day | another | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the sea | then; day | as glass; smooth property | tree rules |
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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