The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 262
Next morning the Prince and Princess went out to see if the dragon had been washed ashore.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: go out, see, wash · To what, where: dragon
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 (Prince), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Princess | cc |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Prince | conj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 washed | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 washed | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 washed | aux:pass |
| 16 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 see | ccomp |
| 17 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 16 washed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the Prince and Princess | morning | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the Prince and Princess not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | wash a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the dragon | ashore property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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