The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 183
But Johnnie and Tina were listening, and they looked at each other, and ran off as fast as their boots would carry them.
Who acts: Johnnie, things, boots · What happens: listen, look, run off, carry · To what, where: things
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 (Johnnie, things, boots), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 listening | cc |
| 2 | Johnnie | Johnnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 listening | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Tina | cc |
| 4 | Tina | Tina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Johnnie | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 listening | aux |
| 6 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 listening | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 looked | obl |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 ran | compound:prt |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 fast | advmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 ran | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 carry | mark |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 boots | nmod:poss |
| 22 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 carry | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 carry | aux |
| 24 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fast | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carry | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 listening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · progressive | Johnnie and Tina | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | past | things = thing | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | things = thing not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | would | things's boots | things = thing | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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