The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 213
And off they went, with the five and seventy pigs trotting steadily after them in a long black procession.
Who acts: cliffs, five pigs · What happens: go, trot · To what, where: long black procession
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 (cliffs, five pigs), 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 | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pigs | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 pigs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pigs | det |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pigs | nummod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seventy | cc |
| 10 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 five | conj |
| 11 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | parataxis |
| 12 | trotting | trot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 pigs | acl |
| 13 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 12 trotting | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 trotting | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 procession | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 procession | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 procession | amod |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 procession | amod |
| 20 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trotting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | cliffs = cliff | off property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trot | gerund | the five pigs not said here | a long black procession | after cliffs = cliff | steadily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in procession=Trajectory |
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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