The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 115
He sleeps under the root of this tree.
Who acts: kingdom · What happens: sleep · To what, where: root
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdom), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sleeps | nsubj |
| 2 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 root | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 root | det |
| 5 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleeps | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 root | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sleeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | kingdom | the root of this tree | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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