The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 282
So they loosened the chains, and the dragon said: "Excuse me a moment, there are one or two little things I should like to fetch," and he moved off to those mysterious steps and went down them, out of sight into the darkness.
Who acts: people, dragon, one little things · What happens: loosen, say, excuse, be, like, fetch · To what, where: chains, dragon, one little things, people, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people, dragon, one little things), 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 | _ | 3 loosened | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loosened | nsubj |
| 3 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chains | det |
| 5 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loosened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loosened | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Excuse | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Excuse | punct |
| 13 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Excuse | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Excuse | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 are | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 are | expl |
| 19 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Excuse | parataxis |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 things | nummod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 two | cc |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 one | conj |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 things | amod |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 are | nsubj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 like | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 like | aux |
| 27 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 things | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 fetch | mark |
| 29 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 like | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Excuse | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Excuse | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 moved | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 moved | nsubj |
| 34 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loosened | conj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 moved | compound:prt |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 steps | case |
| 37 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 steps | det |
| 38 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 steps | amod |
| 39 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 moved | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 went | cc |
| 41 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loosened | conj |
| 42 | down | down | ADV | _ | 41 went | advmod |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 went | obl:unmarked |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 sight | punct |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 sight | case |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 sight | case |
| 47 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 went | obl |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 50 darkness | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 darkness | det |
| 50 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 went | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loosened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | past | people | the chains | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | excuse in a quote | infinitive | the dragon = dragon | moment | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | does in a quote | present | one little things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | like in a quote | should | the dragon = dragon | one little things not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fetch not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the dragon = dragon not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | move off | past | Dragon | to that mysterious steps | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to step=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | go down | past | people not said here | people | sight | into the darkness; down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out sight=Location |
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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