The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 70
The dragon still lies, a stone dragon on the sand, and at low tide the little children play around him and over him.
Who acts: dragon, little children · What happens: lie, play · To what, where: stone dragon, low tide
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 (dragon, little children), 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 | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 lies | advmod |
| 4 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dragon | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dragon | compound |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 sand | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sand | det |
| 11 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dragon | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 play | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 play | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 tide | case |
| 15 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tide | amod |
| 16 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 play | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 children | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 play | nsubj |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lies | parataxis |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 play | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 him | cc |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 him | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the dragon | a stone dragon on the sand | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | play | present | the little children | low tide | around tide | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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