The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 64
The nine rubies were used afterwards in agriculture.
What happens: use · To what, where: nine rubies, agriculture
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: 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 rubies | det |
| 2 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 rubies | nummod |
| 3 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | aux:pass |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 used | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 agriculture | case |
| 8 | agriculture | agriculture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | the nine rubies | agriculture | afterwards property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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