The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 199
So the children loosed the dragon from the chains and the collar, and he broke down one end of the dungeon and went out--only pausing at the forge door to get the blacksmith to rivet his wing.
Who acts: children, Dragon · What happens: loose, break down, go out, pause, get, rivet · To what, where: dragon, chains, one end, forge door, blacksmith, wing
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 (children, Dragon), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 loosed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loosed | nsubj |
| 4 | loosed | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loosed | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 chains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chains | det |
| 9 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loosed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 collar | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 collar | det |
| 12 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chains | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 broke | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 broke | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loosed | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 broke | compound:prt |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 end | nummod |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dungeon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dungeon | det |
| 22 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 end | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loosed | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 pausing | punct |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 pausing | advmod |
| 28 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 went | advcl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 door | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 31 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 door | compound |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pausing | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 get | mark |
| 34 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 pausing | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 blacksmith | det |
| 36 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 get | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 rivet | mark |
| 38 | rivet | rivet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 blacksmith | acl |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 wing | nmod:poss |
| 40 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rivet | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loose | past | the children | the dragon | the chains and the collar | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient | |||
| 2 | break down | past | Dragon | one end of the dungeon | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | the children not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pause | gerund | the children not said here | the forge door | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | the children not said here | the blacksmith | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blacksmith=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | rivet | to-infinitive | the children not said here | Dragon's wing | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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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