The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 41
The children ran straight to the palace, where the Prince was cracking his hunting whip down at the kennels, and told him what had happened.
Who acts: children, Prince · What happens: run, crack, tell, happen · To what, where: palace, hunting whip, kennels, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (children, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 palace | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cracking | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 cracking | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cracking | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cracking | aux |
| 13 | cracking | crack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 whip | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 whip | compound |
| 16 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cracking | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 cracking | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 kennels | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kennels | det |
| 20 | kennels | kennel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cracking | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 told | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 told | cc |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | iobj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 happened | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 happened | aux |
| 27 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 told | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the children | the palace | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | crack | past · progressive | the Prince | Prince's hunting whip | the kennels | down property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whip=Theme | ||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the children not said here | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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