The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 161
She ran right into the thickest part of the wood, because she did not know what her heart was made of, and she was afraid of the dragon, and there in a dell she came on Elfin and his five and seventy fine pigs.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: run, not know, make, be, come · To what, where: thickest part, heart, dell · 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 (Princess), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 part | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 6 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 made | obl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 know | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 made | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 afraid | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 afraid | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 afraid | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 afraid | cop |
| 27 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 made | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 dragon | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dragon | det |
| 30 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 afraid | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 came | cc |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 came | expl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 dell | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 dell | det |
| 36 | dell | dell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 came | obl |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 came | nsubj |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 Elfin | case |
| 40 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 came | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 pigs | cc |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 pigs | nmod:poss |
| 43 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 pigs | nummod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 seventy | cc |
| 45 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 five | conj |
| 46 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 pigs | amod |
| 47 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Elfin | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Princess | into the thickest part of the wood result; right property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into part=Result | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | Princess's heart | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Princess | of the dragon; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Princess | a dell; there | on Elfin and Heart's five fine pigs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dell=Location |
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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