The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 184
They ran through the forge, and down the dungeon steps, and knocked at the iron door. "
Who acts: boots · What happens: run, knock · To what, where: forge
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 forge | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forge | det |
| 5 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 steps | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 steps | cc |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 steps | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 steps | det |
| 10 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 steps | compound |
| 11 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knocked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knocked | cc |
| 14 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 17 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 door | amod |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knocked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | boots = boot | the forge | down the dungeon steps | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forge=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | knock | past | boots = boot not said here | at the iron door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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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