The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 117
John ran as hard as he could into the town, and found the mayor and corporation.
Who acts: John · What happens: run, find · To what, where: town, mayor
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ran | xcomp |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 could | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 could | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | advcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mayor | det |
| 15 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 corporation | cc |
| 17 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mayor | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | John | into the town result; hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into town=Result | ||||
| 2 | find | past | John not said here | the mayor and corporation | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mayor=Topic |
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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