The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 138
Then the Prime Minister solemnly put Solomon's seal on the mouth of the bottle, and the bottle was put in the Treasury, which was the strongest building in the town, and was made of solid copper, with walls as thick as Waterloo Bridge.
Who acts: Prime Minister, Treasury · What happens: put, be, make · To what, where: seal, mouth, bottle, Treasury, strongest building, town
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 (Prime Minister, Treasury), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Minister | det |
| 3 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 4 Minister | compound |
| 4 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 5 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seal | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Solomon | case |
| 9 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mouth | det |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bottle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bottle | det |
| 15 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mouth | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bottle | det |
| 19 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | aux:pass |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 put | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Treasury | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Treasury | det |
| 24 | Treasury | Treasury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 building | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 building | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 building | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 building | det |
| 29 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 building | amod |
| 30 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Treasury | appos |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 town | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 town | det |
| 33 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 building | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 made | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 made | cc |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 made | aux:pass |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 put | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 copper | case |
| 39 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 copper | amod |
| 40 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 walls | punct |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 walls | case |
| 43 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 made | obl |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | _ | 45 thick | advmod |
| 45 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 walls | amod |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 Bridge | case |
| 47 | Waterloo | Waterloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Bridge | compound |
| 48 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 thick | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the Prime Minister | Solomon's seal | the mouth of the bottle | then | solemnly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme on mouth=Destination | |
| 2 | put | past · passive | the bottle | the Treasury | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in treasury=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the Treasury | the strongest building | the town | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | past · passive | of solid copper; with walls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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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