The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 212
He stuffed his finger into the top of the bottle, and the Princess cried out: "The sea--the sea--run for the cliffs!"
Who acts: Elfin, Princess · What happens: stuff, cry out · To what, where: finger, top, sea
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 (Elfin, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stuffed | nsubj |
| 2 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 finger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stuffed | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stuffed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bottle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bottle | det |
| 10 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 top | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stuffed | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cried | compound:prt |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 sea | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sea | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 sea | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sea | appos |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 run | punct |
| 25 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sea | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 cliffs | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cliffs | det |
| 28 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cried | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 stuffed | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 stuffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stuff | past | Elfin | Elfin's finger | the top of the bottle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme into top=Destination | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the Princess | the sea and run | for the cliffs | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for cliff=Recipient |
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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