The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 68
When the sea was smooth, ships came from far and wide, bringing people to hear the wonderful story.
Who acts: sea, ships · What happens: be, come, bring, hear · To what, where: people, wonderful story
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 (sea, ships), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 smooth | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smooth | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smooth | cop |
| 5 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smooth | parataxis |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 far | case |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 came | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wide | cc |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 far | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bringing | punct |
| 14 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bringing | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hear | mark |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bringing | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 story | amod |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hear | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smooth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sea | smooth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | ships | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | ships not said here | people | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=Destination | ||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive | ships not said here | the wonderful story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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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