The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 45
The pack squeezed through the town gates and off across country to hunt the dragon.
What happens: squeeze, hunt · To what, where: pack, town gates, 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: 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 pack | det |
| 2 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 gates | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gates | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gates | compound |
| 7 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 squeezed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 country | cc |
| 9 | off | off | ADV | _ | 11 country | advmod |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gates | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hunt | mark |
| 13 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 squeezed | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dragon | det |
| 15 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hunt | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 squeezed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | participle · passive | the pack | the town gates and country | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme through gate=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | the dragon | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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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