The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 215
Elfin lifted the bottle high above his head and hurled it out between the stars and the sea, and it fell in the middle of the whirlpool.
Who acts: Elfin, bottle · What happens: lift, hurl out, fall · To what, where: bottle, head, stars, middle
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, bottle), 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 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 5 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 lifted | advmod |
| 6 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hurled | cc |
| 10 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hurled | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 hurled | compound:prt |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 stars | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stars | det |
| 15 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hurled | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sea | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stars | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 middle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 middle | det |
| 25 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 whirlpool | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 whirlpool | det |
| 28 | whirlpool | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 middle | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Elfin | the bottle | Elfin's head | high property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme above head=Destination | ||
| 2 | hurl out | past | Elfin not said here | bottle | the stars and the sea | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme between star=Destination | |||
| 3 | fall | past | bottle | the middle of the whirlpool | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in middle=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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