The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 266
It began with Turkish delight and halfpenny buns, and went on with oranges, toffee, coconut ice, peppermints, jam puffs, raspberry-noyeau, ice creams, and meringues, and ended with bull's-eyes and gingerbread and acid drops.
Who acts: feast · What happens: begin, go on, jam, end · To what, where: puffs
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 (feast), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 delight | case |
| 4 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 delight | amod |
| 5 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 began | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 buns | cc |
| 7 | halfpenny | halfpenny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buns | compound |
| 8 | buns | bun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 delight | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 went | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 oranges | case |
| 14 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 toffee | punct |
| 16 | toffee | toffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 oranges | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ice | punct |
| 18 | coconut | coconut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ice | compound |
| 19 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 toffee | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 peppermints | punct |
| 21 | peppermints | peppermint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 oranges | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 jam | punct |
| 23 | jam | jam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | parataxis |
| 24 | puffs | puff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 jam | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 noyeau | punct |
| 26 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 noyeau | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 raspberry | punct |
| 28 | noyeau | noyeau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 puffs | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 creams | punct |
| 30 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 creams | compound |
| 31 | creams | cream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 puffs | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 meringues | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 meringues | cc |
| 34 | meringues | meringue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 jam | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ended | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ended | cc |
| 37 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | parataxis |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 eyes | case |
| 39 | bull's | bull's | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 eyes | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 bull's | punct |
| 41 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 ended | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 gingerbread | cc |
| 43 | gingerbread | gingerbread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 eyes | conj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 drops | cc |
| 45 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 drops | compound |
| 46 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 eyes | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | feast | with Turkish delight and halfpenny buns | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with delight=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | with oranges and toffee and coconut ice and peppermints | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | jam | present | puffs and raspberry noyeau and ice creams | meringues obl | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme puff=Destination | ||||
| 4 | end | past | with bull's eyes and gingerbread and acid drops | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with eye=Subeventuality |
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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