The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 224
And the pigs sat outside and waited.
Who acts: pigs · What happens: sit, wait
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 (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 sat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pigs | det |
| 3 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 waited | cc |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the pigs | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | the pigs not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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