The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 146
By breakfasttime he had devoured the whole of the Prince's treasures, and when the Prince came along the street at about eleven, he met the dragon coming out of the broken door of the Treasury, with molten gold still dripping from his jaws.
Who acts: secretary, Prince, dragon · What happens: devour, come, meet, come out, break, drip · To what, where: eleven, dragon, broken door, jaws
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 (secretary, Prince, dragon), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 breakfasttime | case |
| 2 | breakfasttime | breakfasttime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 devoured | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 devoured | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 devoured | aux |
| 5 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 whole | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 devoured | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 treasures | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Prince | case |
| 12 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 whole | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 met | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 met | cc |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 met | advcl |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 street | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 street | det |
| 21 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 eleven | case |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 eleven | advmod |
| 24 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 came | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 met | nsubj |
| 27 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 devoured | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dragon | det |
| 29 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 met | obj |
| 30 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 dragon | acl |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 door | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 door | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 door | det |
| 34 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 door | amod |
| 35 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 coming | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Treasury | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Treasury | det |
| 38 | Treasury | Treasury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 door | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 dripping | punct |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 gold | case |
| 41 | molten | molten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 gold | amod |
| 42 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 dripping | obl |
| 43 | still | still | ADV | _ | 44 dripping | advmod |
| 44 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 met | advcl |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 jaws | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 47 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 dripping | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 devoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | past · perfect | secretary | by breakfasttime; whole property | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Prince | eleven | along the street | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along street=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | meet | past | secretary | the dragon | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | come out | gerund | the dragon not said here | the broken door of the Treasury | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient door=Result | ||||
| 5 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | drip | gerund | secretary not said here | secretary's jaws | still | with molten gold | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from jaw=Source | ||
| 7 | treasure | the Prince | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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