The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 202
At last the dragon won, and the giant sneaked away across the marshes, and the dragon, who was very tired, went home to sleep, announcing his intention of eating the town in the morning.
Who acts: giant, dragon, intention · What happens: win, sneak away, be, go, sleep, announce · To what, where: marshes, intention, town
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 (giant, dragon, intention), 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 dragon | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dragon | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | obl |
| 5 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sneaked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sneaked | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sneaked | nsubj |
| 10 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 won | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 sneaked | advmod |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 marshes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 marshes | det |
| 14 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sneaked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dragon | det |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tired | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 tired | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tired | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 tired | advmod |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dragon | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dragon | punct |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 won | conj |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 sleep | mark |
| 28 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 went | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 announcing | punct |
| 30 | announcing | announce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 went | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 intention | nmod:poss |
| 32 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 announcing | obj |
| 33 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 34 eating | mark |
| 34 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 intention | acl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 town | det |
| 36 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 eating | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 morning | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 morning | det |
| 39 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 town | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | at the last dragon | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at dragon=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sneak away | past | the giant | the marshes | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across marsh=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | past | the dragon | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the dragon | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | the dragon not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | announce speech: other | gerund | the dragon not said here | Dragon's intention | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Theme | ||||
| 7 | eat | gerund | Dragon's intention not said here | the town | in the morning | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient | |||
| 8 | intend | Dragon | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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