The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 139
The bottle was set down among the sacks of gold, and the junior secretary to the junior clerk of the last Lord of the Treasury was appointed to sit up all night with it and see if anything happened.
Who acts: anything · What happens: set down, appoint, sit up, see, happen · To what, where: bottle, sacks, junior secretary
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 (anything), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bottle | det |
| 2 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux:pass |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 sacks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sacks | det |
| 8 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sacks | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 appointed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 appointed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 secretary | det |
| 14 | junior | junior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 secretary | amod |
| 15 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 appointed | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 clerk | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 clerk | det |
| 18 | junior | junior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clerk | amod |
| 19 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 secretary | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Lord | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lord | det |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Lord | amod |
| 23 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 clerk | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Treasury | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Treasury | det |
| 26 | Treasury | Treasury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Lord | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 appointed | aux:pass |
| 28 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 set | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 sit | mark |
| 30 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 appointed | xcomp |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 sit | compound:prt |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 night | det |
| 33 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sit | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 sit | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 see | cc |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 sit | conj |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 happened | mark |
| 39 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 40 happened | nsubj |
| 40 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 see | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set down | past · passive | the bottle | the sacks of gold | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among sack=Destination | ||||
| 2 | appoint | past · passive | the junior secretary to the junior clerk of the last Lord of the Treasury | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sit up | to-infinitive | night | with bottle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | happen a condition, not said to happen | past | anything | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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