The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 178
At last one day the mayor and corporation, hunting the hare in their gold gowns, came screaming back to the town gates with the news that a lame, humpy giant, as big as a tin church, was coming over the marshes toward the town.
Who acts: mayor · What happens: hunt, come, scream back · To what, where: hare, gold gowns, town gates, marshes
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 (mayor), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mayor | det |
| 6 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 corporation | cc |
| 8 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mayor | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunting | punct |
| 10 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mayor | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hare | det |
| 12 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hunting | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 gowns | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gowns | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gowns | compound |
| 16 | gowns | gown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hare | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 came | advcl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 screaming | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 gates | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gates | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gates | compound |
| 24 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 screaming | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 news | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 news | det |
| 27 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gates | nmod |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 lame | mark |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lame | det |
| 30 | lame | lame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 news | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 giant | punct |
| 32 | humpy | humpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 giant | amod |
| 33 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lame | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 big | punct |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 36 big | advmod |
| 36 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 giant | amod |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 church | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 church | det |
| 39 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 church | compound |
| 40 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 big | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 coming | punct |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 coming | aux |
| 43 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 came | advcl |
| 44 | over | over | ADP | _ | 46 marshes | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 marshes | det |
| 46 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 coming | obl |
| 47 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 49 town | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 town | det |
| 49 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 coming | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | gerund | the mayor and corporation not said here | the hare | children's gold gowns | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hare=Theme in gown=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | scream back speech: express | gerund | the town gates with the news a lame | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to gate=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | come | past · progressive | the marshes | toward the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over marsh=Initial_Location toward town=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/178/