The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 153
"You turn the key like this," she said, "and the door keeps shut.
Who acts: You, nurse, door · What happens: turn, say, keep · To what, where: key · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, nurse, door), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 key | det |
| 5 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 key | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 keeps | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeps | nsubj |
| 17 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | conj |
| 18 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 keeps | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn in a quote | present | You | the key | like this | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | nurse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | present | the door | shut property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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