The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 259
So they went, and the pigs came after, moving in stately blackness, two by two.
Who acts: Sabrinetta, pigs · What happens: go, come, move · To what, where: blackness
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 (Sabrinetta, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pigs | det |
| 7 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | after | after | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 moving | punct |
| 11 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 blackness | case |
| 13 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 14 blackness | advmod |
| 14 | blackness | blackness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 moving | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 two | punct |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 blackness | appos |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 two | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 two | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Sabrinetta | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the pigs | after property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | move | gerund | the pigs not said here | blackness | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in blackness=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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