The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 44
The Prince rode out of the town with his hippopotamuses trotting and frisking behind him, and people got inside their houses as quickly as they could when they heard the voices of his pack and the blowing of his horn.
Who acts: Prince, hippopotamuses, people · What happens: ride out, trot, frisk, get, hear, blow · To what, where: town, houses, voices, horn
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, hippopotamuses, people), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 trotting | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hippopotamuses | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hippopotamuses | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 trotting | nsubj |
| 11 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rode | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 frisking | cc |
| 13 | frisking | frisk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 trotting | conj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 frisking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 got | cc |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 20 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 22 houses | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 houses | nmod:poss |
| 22 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 got | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 quickly | advmod |
| 24 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 19 got | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 could | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 could | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 quickly | advcl |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 heard | advmod |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 heard | nsubj |
| 30 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 voices | det |
| 32 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 heard | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 pack | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 pack | nmod:poss |
| 35 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 voices | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 blowing | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 blowing | det |
| 38 | blowing | blowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pack | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 horn | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 horn | nmod:poss |
| 41 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 blowing | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride out | past | the Prince | the town | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trot | gerund | Prince's hippopotamuses | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | frisk | gerund | Prince's hippopotamuses not said here | behind Prince | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | past | people | people's houses | quickly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | hear | past | hippopotamuses = hippopotamus | the voices of Prince's pack and the blowing of Prince's horn | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | blow | Prince's horn | nom blowing «process transitive»: of=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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