The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 156
And the moment it opened, the Prince pushed the white Princess out of her tower, just as he had pushed her out of her kingdom, and shut the door.
Who acts: door, moment, Prince · What happens: open, push, shut · To what, where: moment, white Princess, tower, Princess, kingdom, door
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 (door, moment, Prince), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pushed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moment | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | nsubj |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Princess | amod |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 tower | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tower | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tower | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pushed | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 pushed | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 pushed | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pushed | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pushed | aux |
| 22 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 pushed | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pushed | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 kingdom | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 kingdom | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 27 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pushed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shut | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shut | cc |
| 30 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pushed | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shut | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | door | the moment not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push | past | the moment | the white Princess | Princess's tower | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent princess=Theme out tower=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | push | past · perfect | Prince | Princess | Princess's kingdom | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme out kingdom=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | shut | infinitive | the moment not said here | the door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
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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